NE executable loading not implemented

[uxmal]

NE executable loading not implemented

[uxmal]

If you can bear with perhaps a week's wait, I can implement NE loading for you. Thanks for the binary reference, that will come in handy for testing.

[uxmal]

You can also open the binary as a "raw" file, by using File > Open as... but without proper support for resolving those segments in the binary, the results will be disappointing.

[moparisthebest]

NE loading would be great! I'll link you to a few things that might be helpful in doing so:

• Another binary for testing
• http://wiki.osdev.org/NE
• http://www.program-transformation.org/Transform/NeFormat

The only thing I've actually found so far capable of loading NE is wine, which runs these perfectly, but on the other hand digging through the wine code to figure out how doesn't sound like a fun time. :)

[uxmal]

Googlable information about Win16 is hard to find -- Wine does seem to be the best source. I've started on the loader. I may have been a little optimistic in my time estimate above, but watch the reko project for updates the coming days.

[moparisthebest]

Looks like HT Editor also has support for NE files.

[uxmal]

OK, I've got it to the point where it is able to load CASTLE.EXE and show all the different segments -- see commit f0a9624. I hope you are able to build reko yourself as I'm about to leave for a few days and won't be able to make a proper test release until next week.

[moparisthebest]

Thanks much, it does load the executable just fine! It does crash on decompilation now though, with these two errors:

An error occurred while reconstructing types. Unable to cast object of type 'Reko.Core.Types.EquivalenceClass' to type 'Reko.Core.Types.StructureType'.
An error occurred while reconstructing types. Unable to cast object of type 'Reko.Core.Types.EquivalenceClass' to type 'Reko.Core.Types.Pointer'.

[uxmal]

Thanks for the report. I'm out of town over the weekend but will attend to it when I get back.

[uxmal]

I'm closing this as the functionality is implemented. I've opened a few separate issues to cover defects that I've discovered since. If you find more please open separate issues.