From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran)
Subject: Re: Decompile Ada .exe Files?
Date: 1999/05/24
Date: 1999-05-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3749c65b.6470506@news.pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3748db50.1017767@news.ozemail.com.au
>Is it possible to decompile a .EXE file that was written in Ada 95
>back to it's original code?
No, the comments are surely gone, and unless you have a debugable exe,
the variable and procedure names are gone. If your compiler produces
certain standard code sequences for certain constructs, those can be
detected and translated to the original construct. See "Machine
Independent Computer Programming" by Halstead for discussion of an
early 1960's decompiler. There's been more recent research, I recall
someone in Australia did a thesis on decompilers. Search the
Internet.
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1999-05-24 0:00 Decompile Ada .exe Files? Aaron
1999-05-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-25 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1999-05-24 0:00 ` Tom Moran [this message]
1999-05-25 0:00 ` Gautier
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