RE: Decompiler, was (uselessly) Re:

[sean.kelly () lanston com]

> From: davidg () genmagic com [mailto:davidg () genmagic com]
>
> On 19 May 99, at 11:23, Gilles wrote:
>
> > Does anyone here can post a simple C decompiler ?
> > If i need to decompile my /bin/login in Linux Red Hat, is 
> it what i need ?
>
>   The consensus used to be that such a beast did not, *could* 
> not, exist.  A 
> rudimentary grasp of compiler technology clearly supports 
> this conclusion.

There have been "decompilers" for years.  What they generally do is just
turn the binary to assembler or if they're really fancy a C program, though
the program will look nothing like the original.  If you use one of these
plan to spend a LOT of time going through the code and don't expect it to be
much more reader-friendly than straight assembler even if you manage to get
it to look like C.

Sean