Interesting decompiler

[Dave McGuire]

On Dec 15, 2006, at 10:18 PM, Chris M wrote:
>> You can write inline assembler in your C source, but
>> the Turbo 2.0x
>> compiler can't do the assembly by itself -- it uses
>> Turbo Assembler
>> for that.
>
>  Is it a *recent* development of compilers that as an
> intermediate step the source code will first be
> reduced to assembler mnemonics, before being reduced
> to object code?

   Absolutely not.  The UNIX world, at least, has been doing it that  
way for decades.

      -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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