On Thu, Nov 18, 2021, 10:07 Tom Brennan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/17/2021 7:32 PM, Tony Thigpen wrote: > > > It's amazing that the disassembler does as good a job as it does. Pat > > the guys on the back that wrote it. > > Yep! And maybe one day an AI program will be able to produce better > labels and comments than the original. No need for the Open Source > movement :) > I'll believe that when AI can include comments that explain "why". > I think I've only used a disassembler (maybe disasm from the PDS > command) to help determine if the old source code I had matched the old > load module currently in production - before making changes. Typically > though, when I compared the two there were always differences, but they > were differences with IBM macro expansions that I assume changed over > the years. One time I did find an extra WTO in the load module that > wasn't in the source, so I had to add that by hand before making changes. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
