dos_compilers/Borland turbo pascal v3/patchtp3.cxx
2024-07-01 12:43:29 -07:00

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// Turbo Pascal v3.02a generates apps that try to determine the speed of the CPU at startup.
// On emulators this can cause many instructions to be executed and throws off benchmark numbers.
// This code replaces the call to do the speed check with NOP instructions.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <process.h>
#include <stdint.h>
void usage()
{
printf( "usage: p app.com\n" );
exit( 1 );
} //usage
long portable_filelen( FILE * fp )
{
long current = ftell( fp );
fseek( fp, 0, SEEK_END );
long len = ftell( fp );
fseek( fp, current, SEEK_SET );
return len;
} //portable_filelen
int main( int argc, char * argv[] )
{
if ( 2 != argc )
usage();
FILE * fp = fopen( argv[1], "r+b" );
if ( !fp )
{
printf( "can't open file %s\n", argv[1] );
usage();
}
long len = portable_filelen( fp );
if ( len < 0x8a9 )
{
printf( "file length: %ld\n", len );
printf( "file seems too small\n" );
exit( 1 );
}
char acBuf[ 32 ];
fseek( fp, 7, SEEK_SET );
fread( acBuf, 30, 1, fp );
acBuf[ 30 ] = 0;
if ( strcmp( acBuf, "Copyright (C) 1985 BORLAND Inc" ) )
{
printf( "file doesn't appear to be a Turbo Pascal v3.02a generated app\n" );
exit( 1 );
}
uint8_t abytes[ 3 ] = { 0 };
fseek( fp, 0x8a7, SEEK_SET );
fread( abytes, 3, 1, fp );
if ( 0x90 == abytes[ 0 ] && 0x90 == abytes[ 1 ] && 0x90 == abytes[ 2 ] )
{
printf( "file is apparently already patched\n" );
exit( 0 );
}
if ( 0xe8 != abytes[ 0 ] || 0xe8 != abytes[ 1 ] || 0xf7 != abytes[ 2 ] )
{
printf( "file doesn't have call 0f7e8h at offset 08a7h\n" );
printf( "values there: %02x, %02x, %02x\n", abytes[ 0 ], abytes[ 1 ], abytes[ 2 ] );
exit( 1 );
}
abytes[ 0 ] = 0x90;
abytes[ 1 ] = 0x90;
abytes[ 2 ] = 0x90;
fseek( fp, 0x8a7, SEEK_SET );
int result = fwrite( abytes, 3, 1, fp );
if ( 1 != result )
{
printf( "couldn't write the NOP instructions, error %d\n", errno );
exit( 1 );
}
fclose( fp );
printf( "file %s successfully patched to remove startup cpu timing code\n", argv[ 1 ] );
return 0;
} //main