On 04/01/2021 21:57, Pancho wrote:
> On 04/01/2021 17:51, gareth evans wrote:
>> On 04/01/2021 13:08, Pancho wrote:
>>> On 04/01/2021 11:00, gareth evans wrote:
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> But I wonder if Artificial Intelligence could, after
>>>> being fed with numerous instruction sets, take a
>>>> block of binary, and analyse its source without
>>>> any prior knowledge of the instruction set?
>>>>
>>>> I am particularly interested in the Binary Blob
>>>> provided for Raspberry Pi computers, with a view to
>>>> getting detailed knowledge of the video processors
>>>> employed therein.
>>>>
>>> I think a lot of the problem is defining the question.
>>>
>>> What do you want it to do?
>>>
>>
>> I don't want it to do anything. I want to play at a low level
>> with the thing ... large oaks from little acorns grow.
>>
>
> Play with what thing? What is an instruction set, what is the Binary
> Blob? Why do you need an AI?
>
> Most compilers leave fingerprints on executables you don't need an AI to
> detect them. I remember decompiling in the early 80's but complex modern
> code can often be a challenge to naively reverse engineer a high level
> understanding from even if you do have source code. Take away sensible
> variable and function names and you are stuffed.

Somehow I think that we're not singing from the same hymn sheet.

Sorry.

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