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On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 02:02:23 +0100, Kiuhnm
<kiuhnm03.4t.yahoo.it@mail.python.org> declaimed the following in
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> 
> Many ASM languages don't have structured control flow statements but 
> only jmps, which are roughly equivalent to gotos. A good decompiler will 
> need to analize the net of jmps and try to rewrite the code using 
> structured control flow statements.
> The idea is to maximize readability, of course.
>
	Never met Sigma's Meta-Symbol <G>

	Okay, the machine level code was limited to basic condition/jump...
But a master of Meta-Symbol (I wasn't such -- not in a trimester college
course) could create macros that would make it structured. 

	In a way, Meta-Symbol wasn't an assembly language so much as a
language for defining assembly languages (I once wasted a few hours at
work writing out the Meta-Symbol definition file needed to produce
absolute-address 8080 output. Even the native Sigma instruction set had
to be loaded into Meta-Symbol before it could process a file).

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