On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 01:46:55PM -0700, Tom Jennings wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
>
> > It is interesting that my definition of a disassembler is
> > quite a bit different than yours. I would call this a code
> > lister. A disassembler includes comments, selecting data types,
>
> COMMENTS!? I'd like to see a disassembler comment code! Humans
> even are areally bad at this...
I'm working with a tool that decompiles Z-Machine binaries (think "Zork")
into Inform source code. It injects comments into the output code when you
describe enum data types. Since decompiling is an iterative process, one
of the features I want to add to this tool is comments in the control file
that are copied verbatim to the output source file. It puts the burden on
the person running the decompiler to understand the output, but it would
then be _possible_ to have commented output.
-ethan
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