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Disassembly listings

#3895
From: Ivan D. Reid
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1989 12:07
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	I don't know why people want a disassembly of the new ROMs from Atari.
Surely the thing we want is the source listing!  Disassembly suffers from
possible bugs in the disassembler (DIS.TOS posted last year has one non-serious
bug that I've found) and also that any comments are added later by a second
party.  Any comments in a source listing show what the programmer thought he
wanted.

	I would support a source listing for reasons similar to some already
mentioned -- to help discover discrepancies between what the docs say and what
the ROMs do.  For example, everyone still copies the info from the original
developers kit on Ongibit() and Offgibit() -- it's in the latest Laser C
for example (including the German translation).  I spent a lot of time long
ago trying to get these routines to work (to control DTR) and finally found
that the docs were wrong by looking at that 5th generation photocopy of
the source code the local dealer had sold us as a "developers kit".  Anyone
trying to use these functions is still doomed to failure until he uses the
source instead of the docs!

		ivan
 
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