Re: It has been done before


Jim Carlock wrote:
> <randyhyde@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> asked:
> > For the life of me, I cannot understand, for example, why someone
> > will continue to argue that a perfect disassembler is possible when
> > the impossibility of this was proved a long time ago and the idea
> > has been accepted for so long.
>
> "Perfect" exists only in the eye of the beholder.

Forget "perfect" then. How about *practical*.
If it were possible to write a *practical* automatic disassembler,
don't you think it would have been done by now? It's not like there has
been any shortage of disassembler programs written.

As for restraint, sorry. I've put up with enough insults from
"know-it-all" Rene who's taken great pains to point out that I don't
know the first thing about disassemblers and what's possible and what's
not. It's payback time. He's got a piece of crap program that cannot
even handle the insertion of a single NOP in his code. After the past
two years of him claiming that only *he* knows how to do disassemblers
properly (insulting not only those who told him it was not possible to
do an automatic disassembler, but others who've written world-class
examples of disassembler), it's time to rub his nose in it a little
bit.

And now he's bored with the disassembler and is thinking about writing
a code converter. Whooo-eee! It starts all over again. At least this
time, it appears as though he's bowing out of the project and he's not
making any promises or wild claims. Maybe he's actually learned
something.
Cheers,
Randy Hyde

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