On Nov 16, 2006, at 11:49 AM, William Couture wrote:

>>
>>> I wouldn't pay for that level of "translation" -- it would be worse 
>>> than useless.
>>
>> Why ? The point is to turn the assembly into compilable C. Of course 
>> there can be a lot of tuning done but the point is that the 'useless' 
>> output will actually compile on any C compiler (with some care).
>
> "Why" is that no new information is being added.  In fact, you are 
> just obscuring the code.

But assuming reasonable libraries, your old chip-specific assembler now runs on an entirely different platform, which is far from "useless."
Any additional intelligence in converting to "human-readable" C is MORE useful, but if you're really in a corner, the straightforward translation might be a big help.

BillW
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