Code analyser
Code
analyser analyses the code of the simulated program and tries to
figure out which address contains valid instruction.
Analyser starts
analysing of the code with address 0 which always must contain an
instruction because reset of the device sets zero into program
counter. So, analyser marks address 0 that it contains an
instruction. Then it marks the address of the next instruction and so
on. If the analyser finds a jump instruction it continues with
destination address of the jump instruction. If it finds a
call instruction, it recursively analyses destination address
as well as next instruction follows the call one.
Analysator
stops if it finds an address which is already marked or if it finds a
return instruction or an indirect jump which is
impossible to follow. All these mean that it is impossible to discover
all instructions of the program.
This problem is solved in very simple way. If the
execution reaches an unmarked address, the analyser is called to
analyse the code starting at actual address pointed by the PC.