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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




       reply	other threads:[~2010-09-29 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.2278.1285732537.1039.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
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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