Re: looking for QuickBASIC decompiler

>[Despite many requests, I've never seen any reports of an x86
> decompiler that did anything useful. -John]


You might not need an x86 decompiler to decompile QuickBASIC. A "trick"
often used to compile "interpreted" languages is to create an executable
that consists of:


- the runtime portion of the interpreter
- an internal representation of the source code
- a loader that reads in the internal represenation and
fires up the runtime


My memory is a bit foggy here, but I believe that the original MS Basic
compiler did this, so there is a decent chance that QuickBASIC does this,
too.


The internal representation may be less difficult to decompile, since
the representation could be more specific to the source language. Of
course, if you can't find documentation on the internal representation,
that will add to the difficulty.


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