I don't think Eric told me, and if he did, I forgot. In those days asm was often used for efficiency, as compilers weren't that good compared to hand-coded asm. He knew I'd purposely written the disassembler to produce MASM source code, and thought I'd enjoy hearing about the use he put it to (and I did!).

BTW, this anecdote is one of the reasons that I've strongly resisted adding macros to D.