Re: Disassembling BASIC?

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Subject: Re: Disassembling BASIC?
From: Tom Lake <tomlake@SLIC.COM>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 06:04:36 -0500
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Joseph wrote in message <346FCFF8.568@geocities.com>...
>A thought that ran through my head:
>
>Write a BASIC program, disassemble the 8xp file, make minor adjustments
>in the resulting assembly, reassemble and now you have an assembly
>version of a BASIC program.

No, you don't, you have a mess.
>
>I haven't tried this, but why won't it work? I know it won't because it
>seems too easy.


The 8xp file is tokenized BASIC, not machine language.  Each keyword (found
in the catalog) is turned into a 1-byte token, not an ml op-code. If you use
a diassembler on it you'll be assembling garbage.

Tom Lake

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