Re: Assembly Code Flowchart/Documentation Tool

From: Mark A. Odell (odellmark_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 11:32:42 -0400

In article <761ef898.0404280706.7404d57@posting.google.com>, "John Flynn"
<query_me2001@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> I have undocumentated legacy 8051 assembler code. I would like to get a
> better understanding of the call structure. Can anyone recommend a tool
> that would process thae assembler code and generate some form of
> documentation, flowcharts, metrics etc. I now that there was a tool called
> asmflow that looked quite good but I canneot find a full version. Any help
> would be appreciated. Thanks,

My experience in the past on small micros like this is to start from the
functional requirements, implement them in well-designed C, and benefit from
having working product in C. Trying to figure out "legacy" asm code is usually
far more time consuming than a re-write.