In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/30/2005
at 05:38 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>What a concept! Such information would, of course, be invaluable to
>a source language interactive debugger.
There used to be several assemblers where the object deck included a
copy of the source deck; in some cases as is, in other cases
compressed. Anybody here remember the SHARE Operating System (SOS) on
the 704?
>BASIC and LightSpeed Pascal took the complementary approach: they
>save nothing but the object code; the editable source is generated by
>decompilation.
Impossible, by definition. If the reconstructed code doesn't include
everything from the original, then whatever it is, it isn't source
code.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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