@jdiffend:
Sorry to interfere, but I'd suggest you check Harry 'Piru' Sintonens background and references before you continue to doubt the things he says. I suppose only a hand full of people (if any) know more about the amiga internals than Piru.
And no, there is *no* way to find out if a word in a data or code section is code or data -- other than doing a full CPU emulation and stepping through the code that's reached (and still this will not yield the sections that contain dead or exceptional code). Though there are code and data hunks in an executable, nothing ever has prevented a coder to mix the contents at his will.
And also with my own technical background, I don't see how a ColdFire board could ever *work* (regardless of the performance) without full CPU emulation, especially regarding those non-compatible instructions with different behaviour or side-effects, that cannot be trapped and then emulated on the fly.
My conclusion is: The Dragon is never going to work in an amiga system, or, if it does, it would be using full CPU emulation (possibly with JIT?*), and hence, unbearably slow -- much slower than an MC68060/040.
* I don't think Elbox has technically enough skilled people to write something like a JIT compiler.
