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McIntyre: Scanning for assembly code in Free Software packages

McIntyre: Scanning for assembly code in Free Software packages

Posted Apr 4, 2013 0:52 UTC (Thu) by kirkengaard (subscriber, #15022)
Parent article: McIntyre: Scanning for assembly code in Free Software packages

I just want to raise this gem:

Ten packages contained assembly code for Vax machines; in some cases it was clear that the code in question was first written in Vax assembly then ported to C for those weird, new-fangled Sun workstations (in the 1980)s.


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