From: john_finigan@yahoo.com (John Finigan)
Subject: [TUHS] 2.11BSD cross compiler
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:20:41 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <311237.31998.qm@web37007.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.2278.1285732537.1039.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
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> > There is close zero chance I'll ever use this stuff,
> > unless I retire
> > to teaching in which case I'll make people write
> > PDP-11 assembler.
>
> That seems a tad archaic. MIPS might be a better
> choice; it's 32-bit
> with 32 registers, and there are excellent simulators for
> it.
At my university there's a grad class that's ostensibly on reverse
engineering,but you can't really disassemble anything if you don't
learn assembler, so you learn it. The downside, I guess, is that
I've read a decent amount of x86 assembler, but written very little.
I don't think it's a bad way to learn, but of course, Larry was
talking about teaching a nice instruction set, and you
kind of lose that. But you get Windows DLL function calling
back as a booby prize.
John Finigan
next parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-29 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2010-09-29 16:20 ` John Finigan [this message]
2010-09-28 5:54 Nick Downing
2010-09-29 0:24 ` Tim Newsham
2010-09-29 0:51 ` Larry McVoy
2010-09-29 2:14 ` John Cowan
2010-09-29 2:38 ` Larry McVoy
2010-09-29 2:59 ` John Cowan
2010-09-29 3:44 ` Larry McVoy
2010-09-29 3:14 ` M. Warner Losh
2010-09-29 3:17 ` Steve Nickolas
2010-09-29 3:55 ` Larry McVoy
2010-09-29 20:54 ` Peter Jeremy
2010-09-29 21:34 ` Larry McVoy
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