Re: Looking for disassembler, decompiler, discompiler or whatever.

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5 Sep 2001 22:12:53 -0400

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From: vbdis@aol.com (VBDis)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 5 Sep 2001 22:12:53 -0400
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References: 01-09-011
Keywords: decompile, comment
Posted-Date: 05 Sep 2001 22:12:53 EDT

zuyihe@163.net (zyy) schreibt:


> My question is: is there any tool that, given exe, will give an
>assembly which looks like the one generated by "gcc -S *.c"? Or, in
>the example, given a.out, will generate hello0.s?


No, but the opposite direction works. There exist tools that, given a
disassembled source, will create an executable, which is equivalent to
that original executable ;-)


You cannot recover names, remarks, or other details, from an
executable, which are definitely lost during compilation or linking.


DoDi
[Depending on how extensive the symbol table info is, you can probably
recover the names, maybe line numbers. -John]


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