Re: Help on disassembler/decompilers

In article <HOW.90Sep5173755@sundrops.ucdavis.edu>, wwho@ucdavis.edu (W. Wilson Ho) writes:
>
> I am looking for any information related to disassembling
> object code into assembly langauge or even higher-level language such
> as C. Would someone please give me pointers to program sources,
> documentation or papers related to this?
...................


> [Turning object code back into assembler is pretty straightforward, and
> every debugger does it. Someone else asked about disassembling into higher
> level languages a little while ago, but I didn't see any responses. -John]


It is not quite that straightforward, and disassemblers can be somewhat
hard to get. Debuggers usually use object code set up specially for
debugging, with certain features available. Some debuggers even require
that the source code be included in such a way that this can be displayed
at debug time. Disassembly frequently is even ambiguous.
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