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Article #623325Re: Quantity of machine code and Assembly programmers
From: Peter Flass
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 23:27
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 23:27
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Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote: > On 4/27/2018 1:41 PM, Andrew Swallow wrote: >> On 27/04/2018 04:13, manh...@gmail.com wrote: >>> What is the probable quantity of programmers that currently are coding >>> in machine code? >>> >>> What is the probable quantity of programmers that currently are coding >>> in Assembly? >>> >> >> Assembler programs are frequently debugged in machine code. > > The machine code is debugged... especially when the source code is > *lost*! It happens more often than you may think!!! > Apparently it must happen more often than _I_ would think. The last time I came across this was when I was playing with PL/I(F) and discovered a case where the distributed source for one module had been partly clobbered. I spent some time reconstructing it from a disassembly of the distributed object and reference to other modules that used a standardized set of macros. Fortunately it was missing only a couple of hundred instructions and S/360 programs are fairly easy to disassemble. -- Pete
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