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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Ralph Proctor <ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 14:11:19 +0000
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Subject: Re: Disassembly
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> From:          Ralph Proctor <ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net> wrote:

> Dear DJ:
> 
> I have been following the fierce discussion on the subject of using or not
> using the Allegro modules in learning game programming, and it is sorting
> itself out well.
> 
> However, the way disassembly has been talked about horrifies and scares me.
> The impression is being given that disassembly is not a good, useful, moral
> experiment and is to be discouraged. > 
[snip]

Disassemblers (like objdump and the one incorporated in the debuggers (RHIDE, 
fsdb, etc)) are programming tools to help developers to fix your *own* code. 
You can't use it to disassemble code from people that explicitly ask to avoid 
it, even if your purpose is educational and personal.

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