[Info-vax] Poulson info from Dave Cantor

[FredK]

"John Reagan" <johnrreagan at earthlink.net> wrote in message 
news:t_6dneBt_9DUzXjRnZ2dnUVZ_gudnZ2d at earthlink.com...

> Thats where the CHECK_SRM tool (or whatever its name is) came from.  It 
> lets you scan existing .EXEs to see if they have the bad seqeunces.
>

Hey John!


That's my claim to fame :-)  SRM_CHECK - it's in SYS$SYSTEM.  I retargeted a 
simple Alpha decompiler that I had written - and got it to chase code 
sequences - the real uglyness was dealing with the compilers that didn't put 
the right charaacteristics on things - so you didn't know if the segment you 
were looking at was data or code - so I just have some kind of heuristic 
that figures out that I'm off in the weeds in data after enough bogus decode 
happens.  The code FWIW still is a decompiler.  Invoke it with -? for help.

Heck, they hacked it for Tru64 as well.