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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: 680X0 -> PPC translator?
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 21:33:33 +0200
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4l65ed$n5s@serpens.rhein.de>
- References: <31499F8E.26A9@netvision.net.il> <volker.0fw1@vb.franken.de> <19960408.40F118.E8F9@an052.du.pipex.com> <316BD11F.69A7@netvision.net.il> <19960410.413918.CA24@aj158.du.pipex.com> <316FE1A5.3A1F@netvision.net.il> <19960413.4A71D0.E501@an089.du.pipex.com> <3174A593.5045@sapiens.com> <4l2btl$clb@serpens.rhein.de> <3175CDC2.4BFF@mail.stud.ingok.hitos.no>
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- Hσvard Pedersen <havardp@mail.stud.ingok.hitos.no> writes:
-
- >Michael van Elst and "Avi L." <avil@sapiens.com> and others wrote:
- >> (mumble, mumble....)
-
- >Face it, what you're talking about is recompiling, which can't be done by a
- >computer alone. It needs human help.
-
- Well, theoretically it is possible just because a particular computer
- just has a finite number of states. But as I wrote, that's not an answer
- because it might take a very long time to complete.
-
- But then the problem is a different one. Nobody needs to recompile
- arbitrary programs. You just need to recompile the limited set of
- programs generated by todays programming languages. And then it is
- not trivial but still easy to decipher the output of a particular
- compiler.
-
- Regards,
- --
- Michael van Elst
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