On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 11:00:29 +0000, gareth evans 
declaimed the following:

>Thinking back to my first job, nearly 50 years ago now,
>when I had to dis-assemble DEC's paper tape BASIC
>interpreter in order to enhance it, I guess that
>dis-assemblers and decompilers must now be ten-a-penny,
>especially for programs running under Windows where
>the structure of Windows programs is well-known with
>an assumption that C was the source language?
>
 Actually, I think the use of disassemblers et al has fallen away.
Modern processors have so many peephole optimizations and out-of-order
execution streams that converting an executable back to assembly source is
almost meaningless -- and getting back to a high-level language is near
impossible. One would have to be an expert at the assembly for a processor
to have any chance of understanding the result.


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