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echo: c_plusplus
to: FERNANDO ARIEL GONT
from: BOB STOUT
date: 1997-11-09 13:51:00
subject: C/C++ discompiler (or disassembler)

On , Fernando Ariel Gont (4:900/470.10@fidonet) wrote: 
 > Well, a profesor of mine (one I call Guru), asked me if I could get a C 
or
 > C++) discompiler (or disassembler).....
Fernando...
  The short answer is that no such thing as a C/C++ decompiler is available.
  The long answer (which explains *why* it's not possible) is available in 
SNIPPETS - see DECOMPILE.TXT, which follows this message.
  There are such things available on the Web, but they're useless for any 
serious application. Most of the decompilers which have been written have 
been the product of postgraduate theses in Computer Science. I've collected 
several of them and they're all hardly worth the effort to download unless 
you're doing research on the subject.
  Disassemblers, OTOH, are quite common and vary in usefulness. Of course, 
they only get you back to assembly code, which is a long way from C/C++ 
source code! 
  
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