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Subject: Re: Disassembly of 00000
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 14:24:58 +0800
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>A disassembler just uses a table. The intel documentation describes all
>the instruction, with the method on how do decode it (not really the method
>you have to write it of course).
>A disassembler should know where to start to disassemble, else he will
>start by disassembling bad data.. and probably fail on an unknown or
>unlogical instruction, or the worst case everything will be ok.
  
  Thanks!

  What is the condition that decide one byte is or not a legal instruction's start ?

  Are there some occasions that disassembler need scan more than one byte to detect

  its logic ?