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Bart T.
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Re: It's called "static recompiler"
03/15/11 09:08 PM


Sure, you could generate a list of instructions and the addresses they appear at at run-time, which is basically how Graham's method works but you've got to make sure that you execute all possible code. The easy way to solve this is to lug around the original ROM with you and interpret anything you missed. A much, much more difficult alternative is to do something like FX!32 (the old X86->Alpha translator for Windows NT), which caches translated blocks on disk and updates this each time the program is run. But again, the problem here is that you have to retain the ROM.

In all cases, you will have to retain the ROM code for on-the-fly translation.


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* Emulator: Interpreter vs. Compiler? safreen 03/14/11 01:17 AM
. * Re: Emulator: Interpreter vs. Compiler? R. Belmont  03/14/11 08:03 PM
. * Re: Emulator: Interpreter vs. Compiler? safreen  03/15/11 07:24 AM
. * Re: Emulator: Interpreter vs. Compiler? R. Belmont  03/15/11 03:02 PM
. * Re: Emulator: Interpreter vs. Compiler? safreen  03/15/11 06:14 PM
. * Re: Emulator: Interpreter vs. Compiler? R. Belmont  03/15/11 09:37 PM
. * Re: Emulator: Interpreter vs. Compiler? safreen  03/16/11 05:56 AM
. * Re: Emulator: Interpreter vs. Compiler? safreen  03/16/11 05:37 AM
. * Re: Emulator: Interpreter vs. Compiler? drewcifer  03/16/11 07:25 PM
. * Re: Emulator: Interpreter vs. Compiler? H@P  03/17/11 03:59 PM
. * Re: Emulator: Interpreter vs. Compiler? StilettoAdministrator  03/16/11 07:53 PM
. * Re: Emulator: Interpreter vs. Compiler? Bart T.  03/16/11 04:14 AM
. * Re: Emulator: Interpreter vs. Compiler? R. Belmont  03/16/11 05:58 PM
. * Re: Emulator: Interpreter vs. Compiler? Bart T.  03/16/11 09:34 PM
. * Re: Emulator: Interpreter vs. Compiler? etabeta  03/15/11 10:18 AM
. * Re: Emulator: Interpreter vs. Compiler? safreen  03/15/11 05:41 PM
. * Re: Emulator: Interpreter vs. Compiler? Bart T.  03/15/11 09:16 PM
. * Re: Emulator: Interpreter vs. Compiler? Matty_  03/14/11 01:35 AM
. * Re: Emulator: Interpreter vs. Compiler? safreen  03/14/11 02:03 AM
. * Re: Emulator: Interpreter vs. Compiler? BIOS-D  03/14/11 04:50 AM
. * Re: Emulator: Interpreter vs. Compiler? R. Belmont  03/14/11 03:17 PM
. * Re: Emulator: Interpreter vs. Compiler? safreen  03/15/11 07:01 AM
. * Re: Emulator: Interpreter vs. Compiler? Bart T.  03/15/11 09:50 AM
. * Re: Emulator: Interpreter vs. Compiler? safreen  03/15/11 04:23 PM
. * Re: Emulator: Interpreter vs. Compiler? Bart T.  03/15/11 09:03 PM
. * It's called "static recompiler" safreen  03/14/11 08:12 AM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" Bart T.  03/14/11 08:50 AM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" safreen  03/15/11 06:32 AM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" R. Belmont  03/15/11 02:59 PM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" safreen  03/15/11 05:47 PM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" Bart T.  03/15/11 09:10 PM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" Bart T.  03/15/11 10:09 AM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" safreen  03/15/11 04:34 PM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" R. Belmont  03/15/11 09:41 PM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" krick  03/18/11 05:01 AM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" safreen  03/16/11 05:51 AM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" Bart T.  03/16/11 07:48 AM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" Bart T.  03/15/11 09:08 PM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" safreen  03/16/11 05:20 AM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" Bart T.  03/16/11 07:51 AM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" safreen  03/16/11 09:23 AM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" R. Belmont  03/16/11 06:08 PM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" safreen  03/16/11 09:00 PM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" Anonymous  03/17/11 10:04 AM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" StilettoAdministrator  03/16/11 06:56 PM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" keshbach1  03/16/11 07:52 PM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" BIOS-D  03/16/11 07:04 PM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" Bart T.  03/16/11 09:31 PM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" R. Belmont  03/16/11 09:40 PM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" twistyAdministrator  03/16/11 10:48 PM
. * Took ya all long enough.... mogli  03/17/11 04:18 AM
. * Re: Took ya all long enough.... R. Belmont  03/17/11 02:37 PM
. * Re: Took ya all long enough.... mogli  03/18/11 04:53 AM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" Bart T.  03/17/11 12:03 AM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" drewcifer  03/15/11 09:24 PM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" BIOS-D  03/15/11 05:00 PM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" Waremonger  03/16/11 04:58 AM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" krick  03/15/11 07:15 AM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" R. Belmont  03/15/11 02:55 PM
. * Re: It's called "static recompiler" AWJ  03/15/11 12:15 PM

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