Disassembling A Flat Binary File Using objdump

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Multimedia Mike picture Multimedia Mike · Jan 12, 2013 · Viewed 57k times · Source

Can I disassemble a flat binary file using objdump?

I'm familiar with disassembling a structured binary executable such as an ELF file using:

objdump -d file.elf

But if I have a flat binary file that I know is supposed to be loaded at, e.g., address 0xabcd1000, can I ask objdump to disassemble it? I tried supplying options such as '--start-address=0xabcd1000' but objdump just states that it doesn't recognize the format.

I have other ideas about how to disassemble the file but I wanted to know if objdump could provide a simple solution.

Answer

Multimedia Mike picture Multimedia Mike · Jan 13, 2013

I found the solution to my own question on a different forum. It looks something like this:

objdump -b binary --adjust-vma=0xabcd1000 -D file.bin

I've tested this and it works.

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