Re: reverse engineer c or java

[imp () VILLAGE ORG (Warner Losh)]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005210045330.21360-100000 () battlemech talocan dhs org> phazer writes:
: It will decompile java .class files into java source code.. I don't know
: if there are similar programs for C, but i believe it's a lot
: harder to decompile than java.

Much harder.  java -> jvm is basically 1-1 so reversing it is easy.  I
said basically because there are exceptions.  Also, the distance
between java and jvm is relatively small. intel assember code doesn't
map backwards to C easily and the distance it much larger.  The larger
the distance between source and object, the harder it is to convert
backwards.  Also, C doesn't have the nice 1-1 mapping to object code
java does.  Especially for heavily optimized functions.

Warner