8 Apr
2004
8 Apr
'04
2:52 p.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
I'm working with a tool that decompiles Z-Machine
binaries (think "Zork")
into Inform source code. It injects comments into the output code when you
describe enum data types. Since decompiling is an iterative process, one
of the features I want to add to this tool is comments in the control file
that are copied verbatim to the output source file. It puts the burden on
the person running the decompiler to understand the output, but it would
then be _possible_ to have commented output.
But that is a special case of software decoding.
The only software I have seen that did that type of stuff of adding
comments, was a program to diss-assemble the PC bios. I belive this was
to get around the fact you could not sell a source listing of the PC
bios but you could disssemble the ROM had on your AT.
-ethan
PS. That still don't help me Win at
ZORK! :)