Re: Reverse Compilers

hammond@thumper.bellcore.com (Rich A. Hammond)
Tue, 27 Oct 87 07:23:06 EST

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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 87 15:35:23 EST
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From: hammond@thumper.bellcore.com (Rich A. Hammond)
Keywords: Convex, debugger, optimization, vectorization

On our Convex the debugger works with all levels of optimization,
including vectorization. Granted, there is not necessarily a
one to one correspondence between source level statements and
instructions, but it can usually keep track of variables
and approximate corresponding location in the source.


I would think that reverse compilers would be neat under UNIX given
that if one had the symbol table one could at least use the same
names as the original program. I don't know of any though. It really
isn't necessary frequently enough to justify writing ones(my opinion).


Rich Hammond
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