Assembler Compiler In Bash

sTeF writes "This guy is crazy, he wrote an assembler totally in Bash. After all those awk/sed/ps httpservers this is the next crazy step. what's next? a virtual machine in Bash? anyhow here's the url to the source."

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'Assembler Compiler?'

[emerson]

Good thing the Slashdot editors are calling non-coders "l4m3" in the poll this week, since they're SO clear on the difference between assemblers and compilers....


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Next step

[geirt]

the next crazy step

bash in assembler.

By the way, that would make bash self booting ...

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recursion, n: see recursion.

Strange, stupid things to do with common tools

[multipartmixed]

...many moons ago, my 3rd year AI prof asked us to hand in a solution to the `Blocks World Problem' in any language we wanted to. (Of course he actually wanted a solution in Lisp, but I had just finished hacking some extra functionality into Emacs and was sick of that language)

I turned in a solution in ksh. He asked me "Why Ksh??", and I said "It doesn't fork to run functions like the bourne shell." Hee hee! I love given right-wrong answers to profs. ;-)

A few weeks later I wrote a normal-math to RPN-math parser in Bourne shell using the Shunting Yard algorithm.

You can do all kinds of things in shell -- for those of you among us who extoll p*rl as the be-all and end-all of programming languages, I say, "Try Shell! If you can't do it in shell, you should be writing it in C, anyhow".

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Bullshit

[multipartmixed]

You don't need to build anything on the machine-to-be-h4x0rd if you know the target architecture -- which you must if you're going to write your 31337 buffer overflow 3xpl017 in assembler.

Anything which can generate binary from your telnet connection will do -- I've transfered binaries from one system to another by cutting and pasting them in base64, or escaped octal before. Hell, there are even special t00lz designed for transfering binaries which are often available on the target system.. Lets see... I think they are called "ftp", "rsh", "ssh", and other funny nam3z like that.

Yeesh. You people are idiots. Sysadmins beware? Puh-lease.

No 5cr1pt k1dd13 is going to be writing custom one-offs in assembler on a target box.. after all, the 5cr1pt k1dd1e collective IQ is somewhat near the value the ax register holds after xor ax,ax.

No skilled cracker is going to need this tool to do the deed, although it might be handy to have around.

Next time, think before you speak -- alarmism is not useful. If you weren't posting as an AC, I'd think that you were almost certainly trying to a frist psot karma-whore trick.

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LOL

[jawtheshark]

Now we just need an assembler written in perl! Everyone knows that will be the more elegant code ;-)