On Jul 28, 2011 7:26 AM, "Noel Welsh" <<a href="mailto:noelwelsh@gmail.com">noelwelsh@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Tony Garnock-Jones <<a href="mailto:tonyg@ccs.neu.edu">tonyg@ccs.neu.edu</a>> wrote: > > > Would it be fair to say that were such a thing to come into existence, > > the VM would need to be changed as part of that work? > > There is nothing you can't do with a brave heart and a disassembler. > In other words, I've occasionally thought it would be fun to write a > generic object inspector via abuse of the FFI. Certainly. That's how the disassembler I wrote works. It's not a stable solution, but it is effective. sam th