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Interesting! I wonder, back in those days, when your day to day job involves coding in Assembly, I guess reaching to a disassembler on a regular basis also shou
by zerr 6y ago
Interesting! I wonder, back in those days, when your day to day job involves coding in Assembly, I guess reaching to a disassembler on a regular basis also should've been a norm, no?
- WalterBright 6y agoNot really. But I can tell you that, as a compiler writer, reaching for the disassembler is what you do a lot of!
- zerr 6y agoOf course. And I bet you've memorized a fair share of opcodes as well! ;)
- WalterBright 6y agoUnintentionally, yes. One day I realized I just knew them. The code generator used to hardcode the opcodes, but I have since slowly migrated to use mnemonics, and the opcodes have faded somewhat in my mind. Of course, I mean the 16 bit opcodes. The SIMD ones, no freakin' way! It's like the Wizard of Oz. I know most of the dialog, though I never made any attempt to memorize it. A friend of mine knows all the dialog for all the Star Trek TOS episodes. He just realized one day he knew it.