From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Fri May 1 15:19:19 2009 X-Spam-Summary: 50,0,0,90fbd48d94dc2eb6,e5c454a4b6f90daf,rfburrows@ymail.com,mint@lists.fishpool.fi:p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk,RULES_HIT:355:379:541:599:601:901:945:967:972:973:988:989:1260:1261:1264:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1358:1359:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1541:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1766:1792:2197:2199:2393:2525:2553:2560:2563:2682:2685:2693:2857:2859:2933:2937:2939:2942:2945:2947:2951:2954:3000:3022:3027:3352:3653:3865:3866:3867:3869:3870:3871:3872:3876:3877:3934:3936:3938:3941:3944:3947:3950:3953:3956:3959:4250:4648:5007:6114:6117:7652:7679:7904:8501:8599:8603:9025:9388:9391,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fu,MSBL:none,DNSBL:none From: "Roger Burrows" Organization: Anodyne Software To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi, p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 15:13:20 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [MiNT] MiNTLib for ColdFire Message-ID: <49FB1190.29486.9AF7872@rfburrows.ymail.com> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20090501111706.p0w4rbgracgk0css@pop.freeola.net> References: <49F743B1.8030803@freesbee.fr>, <49FA299D.2060405@chello.nl>, <20090501111706.p0w4rbgracgk0css@pop.freeola.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.41) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-session-marker: 616E6F64796E654078706C6F726E65742E636F6D X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: rfburrows@ymail.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: On 1 May 2009 at 11:17, p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk wrote: > So with some work a TOS binary can be dis-assembled into M68k > assembler. > > Could http://www.microapl.co.uk/asm2c/index.html be used to convert > it to C. A lot of work but for some crucial applications it might > be worth it. I realise it might stretch the EULA a little bit but > when the author/owner cannot be found who is going to complain for > the quantity of users we are talking about ? > Hate to sound negative, but I see two problems: 1. Relogix generates C comments, function names, defines etc from those in the assembler source. If the assembler source is a result of (mostly) automated disassembly, the comments & labels will be meaningless, leading to meaningless function names & defines = unmaintainable code. 2. It's expensive: the minimum charge of $2500 covers 10000 lines of assembler, assuming "no special difficulties". 10000 lines would be on the small size for a meaningful application. What programs are worth $2500 or more to our group? Roger