Re: Disassembly of 00000

[Brian Raiter <breadbox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>    I have a question about disassemblly utility .
>    If I fill an elf's text section with some random data,then 
>    how does the disas command work for these data?
>    Is there occasion that several sequence of bytes can not be translated
>    into legal instructions?

Yes, definitely. In those cases a typical disassembler will just mark
the first byte as being literally emitted and try to resume
disassembly at the next byte. For example, using ndisasm v2.07:

$ echo -e '\017zz' | ndisasm -
00000000  0F                db 0x0f
00000001  7A7A              jpe 0x7d
00000003  0A                db 0x0a

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