From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: Richard Salz <rich.salz@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Disassemblers
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2021 07:50:12 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKzdPgxTGrehsiJVXVyD19QOXRZrgbYhAx47Ebko4PNHYMuo+Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKzdPgxGLNkuUNG7CRwbuV0M3SGrf2TN4egSgg=iisT1sr=fBQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Although upon reflection, I think what I did was fix 'adb' and call it
'db'. Haven't had my coffee yet this morning.
-rob
On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 7:49 AM Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
> For v8 or thereabouts, I spent some time fixing some fundamental bugs in
> db and found that it was arcane but remarkably powerful. Since it was lower
> level, it avoided the endemic debugging problem of misleading you about
> your program: All it could do was tell you what the machine was doing.
> (Cdb, sdb, and adb were, at least in my experience, always lying to you.) I
> may be the only person who appreciated db fully. Once the bugs were gone
> you really could use it to good effect, as long as you understood the CPU.
>
> But it was buggy and arcane, no question about that.
>
> -rob
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 6:46 AM Richard Salz <rich.salz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I remember compiling and playing Langston's "empire" that I was told came
>> from a decompiled executable. This was in the 4.2 days.
>>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-19 21:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-19 15:04 Henry Bent
2021-06-19 15:54 ` Clem Cole
2021-06-19 16:33 ` Henry Bent
2021-06-19 16:59 ` Clem Cole
2021-06-19 20:44 ` Richard Salz
2021-06-19 21:49 ` Rob Pike
2021-06-19 21:50 ` Rob Pike [this message]
2021-06-19 22:55 ` Clem Cole
2021-06-19 23:14 ` Larry McVoy
2021-06-20 1:41 ` Brantley Coile
2021-07-02 1:36 ` scj
2021-07-02 16:56 ` Paul Winalski
2021-07-02 17:45 ` Paul Winalski
2021-07-02 18:07 ` John P. Linderman
2021-06-19 17:57 Noel Chiappa
2021-06-19 18:40 ` Clem Cole
2021-06-20 1:15 Norman Wilson
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