[plug] Assembler stuff

[John Summerfield]

> 
> I was using M$ WinNT, yesterday, with IE4 (it is the only combination 
> that I have got working with ANZ Internet banking), and IE4 crashed. 
> It came up with a dialogue box, that asked whether I wanted to debug 
> the application. I thought, stuff it, why not see what happened, and 
> so entered yes. Next thing, Visual C++ loads, and disassembles it, 
> giving me  the assembler code.
> 
> So, I think, if it can do that, if I get some driver (like a GDI 
> printer driver) for window$, and disassemble it, using Visual C++, and 
> copy the assembly code to Linux, and assemble it in Linux, will it 
> work? Or, will the assembler code be slightly different?

I think there IS a compatible assembler. However, the code's unlikely to 
work as its operating environment and API are different.



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