Recent changes to feature-requests

Please add Z-80 dissembly support

turnkit — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 22:43:00 -0000

Please add support for disassembling Z-80 cpu code.

Windows subsystem 16 (BOOT_APPLICATION)

Sergei — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:22:03 -0000

Please, add PE subsystem IMAGE_SUBSYSTEM_WINDOWS_BOOT_APPLICATION (16) as per http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms680339%28VS.85%29.aspx

Currently src/plugins/bin/pe.cpp contains this:

static const char* subSystem[] =
{
"Unknown",
...
"X-Box",
};

Do something like this:

"X-Box",
"Unknown (15)", //15
"Windows Boot Application", //16
};

Distributed reverse engineeging, please add support

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:21:19 -0000

For IDA Pro someone write good plugin - for syncing changes in project with main server. It is work very good and very useful for command working. So, i think, if you interested in it, you can add thi functionality in best open source disasm - beye :-) This is small page about this process - http://www.openrce.org/distributed_rce/ Also i attached latest sources of this plugin (Plugin sources in C++, server in Python)
Thx for the good tool!

Override file type detection

Edward Robbins — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:56:58 -0000

Currently there is no way to specify the architecture of a file, or the executable file format. You are reliant on beye detecting it correctly. My idea is to provide a command line option to specify the architecture and file format in a similar way to the objdump command provided with the GNU utils. e.g.:

-f format : input file executable format such as binary, elf (distinct from viewing format for which we have -b, -d, -h and -t)
-m architecture : architecture, such as arm, i386, mips etc

biew somefile -f binary -m arm -d

This is because I disassemble a lot of arm binary files using objdump, but beye would be a much more convenient way to do it. Currently this is impossible, as beye does not support disassembly of binary files, presumably it would not know what arch they are.

Duplicate messages in configure script

Victor Homyakov — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:50:05 -0000

Some messages during configuration process have duplicated words (checking for checking for):

Checking for checking for popen ... yes
Checking for checking for pclose ... yes
Checking for checking for sys/resource.h ... yes

Make Goto (F5) accept percentages

anatoly techtonik — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:39:09 -0000

It would be very convenient to jump around the file by percentage rather than offset. Unfortunately, Goto dialog doesn't accept percent signs. Sigh..

Improve "const correctness"

Markus Elfring — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:15:43 -0000

Would you like to apply the advices from the article
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Const_correctness" to
your sources?
I suggest to add the key word "const" to the type
specifiers for parameters like the following examples.

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/biew/biew/bmfile.h?rev=1.2&view=markup
fname (function ".+Open.*")
buff (functions "..WriteBuff.*")

AMD64 anywhere

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 11:51:24 -0000

I'm coding on an Opteron : booting from DOS, going
through 16-bit real mode until 64-bit long mode...

Could BIEW have a special key to toggle from 16-bit
disassembly to 64-bit disassembly, anytime while
viewing the file ?
Or/and : could it start viewing a file with a given option :
say, /cpu=AMD64, to view the AMD64 disassembly ?
It would be very helpful

Thanks anyway
Regards
valy

search in disassembler mode

Pike G — Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:07:55 -0000

In View Dissasemler Mode the search should look into the
assembly code. At least there should be a swtch to make it do so.

relocation resolving

just — Sun, 13 May 2001 00:24:01 -0000

something i would really like would be code that
resolves ELF relocation entries to their real address
so that you can jump to them. This occurs if object
files are linked together. So you see something like
0xe8 0xfc 0xff xff 0xff when there should be an address
there. Normally it gets modified at loadtime...