Re-writing IBM Asembler code to C. No documentation whatsoever. Code was our only reference.

Alot of this weeks rants are about IBM lol

Same story, but i am fixing banking systems (Cobol) with c++14 ( now17 actually) with a decent dose of self control and some linker scripts rainbow magic

But if you would want to be lazy, aren't most old assembler instructions mappable to simple C statements? Season that with some goto instead of proper control logic, and variables named after the registers, and you're half way home, right?

Yay

Well played... just reminding me when porting bluetooth driver in FreeBSD... my only friend is VCS and low bandwidth... it's happening just about... 9 years ago

@siljamicke That could possibly work but considering that we wanted to do it the "proper" way and we wanted assembler to run alongside C code, we had to do some magic with the addresses since assembler is running below the line (24bit) and C natively runs above the line (31bit). It was a lot of fun

@esavier reminds me of the time when I migrated a C/C++ code to COBOL. Imagine that haha!

Just inline the existing assembly. Let it be "the next guy"'s problem. 😂

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Hah good times good times :D

@vlxdxmxr dammit! Here you go dropping sayings that I don't understand! Above and below the line, what's that? Now I need to Google that, and we all know where that ends. It ends with me three hours later reading up on how photosynthesis works. Thanks a lot mate!

@siljamicke ha! Don't mind me. Sometimes I blab non sense haha!