Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!decvax!ucbvax!ucsd!sdcsvax!nosc!humu!uhccux!lee From: lee@uhccux.UUCP (Greg Lee) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Languages and learning (was: Philosophy of C) Message-ID: <1579@uhccux.UUCP> Date: 17 Feb 88 12:12:26 GMT References: <903@micomvax.UUCP> Organization: U. of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu) Lines: 10 From article <903@micomvax.UUCP>, by ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn): > ... > Without examining it too closely, it seems to me that it is MUCH more likely > that you are disassembling on the wrong boundaries than the code is jumping > into the middle of instructions!! Interpreting binary dumps can be VERY > misleading! Oh, I don't think so. This is a standard trick in 6502 programming. The Basic interpreter on my Synertek SYM-1, Microsoft derived, I think, is full of this. Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu