Re: anyone interested in decompilation

dcorbit@connx.com wrote:


> QuantumG wrote:


>>Decompilation is the process of recovering human readable source code
>>from a program executable. Many decompilers exist for Java and .NET as
>>the program executables (class files) maintain much of the information
>>found in the source code. This is not true for machine code
>>executables however.


JVM isn't all that different from many machines. I think it is more
the exception model of Java that prohibits many optimizations that
otherwise might confuse decompilers.


>>In recent years decompilation for machine code has moved from the
>>domain of crackpots and academic hopefuls to a number of real
>>technologies that are available to the general public.


It is likely specific to a specific version of a compiler,
and will depend on the optimizations that the compiler does.


(snip)


> P.S.
> You can't turn the DNA of a dead cow back into a cow. That sort of
> thing only works on "Jurasic Park" movies.


There are people working on the Woolly Mammoth, though the probability
might not be so high. I would expect that some extinct organism will
be brought back in the not too distant future. It depends a lot on
the quality of the DNA, and finding a similar enough living organism
as an egg source.


-- glen

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