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- From: marc@aargh.incubus.sub.org (Marc 'Nepomuk' Heuler)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: OS features
- Message-ID: <IRAYx*nla@aargh.incubus.sub.org>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 18:07:40 CET
- Reply-To: marc@aargh.incubus.sub.org
- References: <cg.762h@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA> <4dha3a$3fs@mercury.cpd.tandem.com>
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- In article <4dha3a$3fs@mercury.cpd.tandem.com>, norman_henry writes:
-
- > Why would assembly code prevent old programs from being recompiled???
- > When Tandem went from proprietary processors a few years back, we used
- > an "accellerator" which basically took an _object_ file as input, and
- > produced an optimized MIPS risc object, which runs just fine
-
- The 680x0 don't differentiate code and data. Every possible execution flow
- of the code must be exhausted to _reliably_ transform it into pseudocode.
-
- That is incredibly much more than what an Emulator does - an Emulator
- 'only' exhausts those execution flows that are relevant to the user.
-
- Most Amiga Assemblers support camouflage of code as data and vice-versa.
- So even obtaining the original ASM source of a program does not
- _necessarily_ allow the conversion into another language. However, IMHO it
- will in most cases.
-