[Vm-dev] unit code for new faster bitblt

Stefan Marr smalltalk at stefan-marr.de
Tue Jun 25 08:02:13 UTC 2013


Hi:

On 25 Jun 2013, at 03:23, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

> On 24-06-2013, at 6:13 PM, Casey Ransberger <casey.obrien.r at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Ouch. Okay we *are* in fact looking at the difference between Intel (asasm) and AT&T (gas [also, yuck]) syntax. 
>> 
>> If there isn't that much asm code, we can translate it by hand. If there's a whole lot of it, maybe it would be more productive to try to parse out the AST and then pretty print it out to AT&T syntax. Macros might make that really hard, though.
> 
> Yah. That's why we're probably best off waiting for Ben to be free again. There's a *lot* of ASM code. At least he already knows what it all is supposed to do. Unless, of course, it is in fact work done by a spirit guide that controlled his typing whilst under the influence of exotic medications.

How about just decompiling the binary (i.e. the compiled ASM code) to the proper format?

Best regards
Stefan

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