Re: Filesystem errors

[Kuba Ober <kuba@mareimbrium.org>]

On ¶roda 17 lipiec 2002 08:16 am, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 08:11:44AM -0400, Kuba Ober wrote:
> > Did I mention that spinrite was about 100kb in size and written in
> > assembler?
>
> This is not an advantage by any means in my view. It only means it is
> x86 specific, most probably requires dos/windows, and hard to debug.

You're right, but the guy simply kept it in assembler since mid-80's.

And as far as I know him, and I know his coding style a little bit from 
disassembling the early spinrite II, his code is mostly more legible than 
poorly written C++.

And the program, believe it or not, does not require debugging as it is. I 
think that the current version works fine w/o any changes nor patches since 
about 3 years or so. He does one hell of a testing job, and he always bases 
on previous code that worked (most probably one of the reasons why it's still 
in assembler).

He is kind of assembly-maniac, but he has some windows utilities which are in 
assembler and do very cool things.

Cheers, Kuba Ober