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From: nreadwin@miclon.uucp (Neil Readwin)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Subject: Re: Help on disassembler/decompilers
Keywords: assembler, debug
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.102534.390@miclon.uucp>
Date: 13 Sep 90 10:25:34 GMT
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In article <9009092238.AA28341@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu> hankd@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Hank Dietz) writes:
>Basic disassembly is trivial

Not for all instruction sets. The VAX has a CASE statement where the number
of cases (and therefore the size of the instruction) can be in a register.
Disassembling this is *not* trivial. Neil.
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