Any tools for analyzing PDP-10 code?

From: Huw Davies <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Sat Feb 2 07:38:28 2002

At 08:20 PM 1/02/2002 -0800, Derek Peschel wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 05:32:17PM -0800, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> > > And if anyone has a grammar for FAIL, that would be nice too.
> >
> > Have you checked the DECUS tapes? I seem to recal SAIL/FAIL being on
> one of
> > them.
>
>I already have the source, executable, and manual for FAIL. I even sent
>e-mail to the author. He said it's been too long since he worked on
>the code. :) Someone might be able to derive a grammar from the specs
>and the code, but I didn't really expect that anyone already did.

I guess I'm surprised that the author isn't dead or at least remembers what
FAIL was. It's been nearly 25 years since I last used it.

>It was just an offhand remark. I wanted to create a syntax file for Vim.
>I would be much happier about finding a basic-block analyzer.

I don't recall too many block analysis programs that existed when FAIL was
a current product. I seem to recall LINK could do some interesting
dependency graphs and there might have been one or two "flow chart"
generators for some of the higher level languages, but I don't remember one
for MACRO-10 so I guess unless Stanford did something for FAIL you might be
out of luck.

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