From: Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com>
Subject: Re: Decompile Ada .exe Files?
Date: 1999/05/25
Date: 1999-05-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zp2trom0.fsf@yakisoba.forte-intl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7ic9cs$eor$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com> writes:
> In article <3748db50.1017767@news.ozemail.com.au>,
> rum_and_cola@hotmail.com (Aaron) wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > Is it possible to decompile a .EXE file that was written in
> > Ada 95 back to it's original code?
>
> No, and the answer would be no for almost any other language
> substituted for Ada 95 there. Far too much information has
> been lost, in particular the executable does not contain
> any comments for a start.
Probably a good thing, too. I remember reverse compiling the UCSD
p-System from the p-Code in my energetic youth. Just threw away a
boxful of it that I had kept for nearly 15 years in my garage.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-05-24 0:00 Decompile Ada .exe Files? Aaron
1999-05-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-25 0:00 ` Ronald Cole [this message]
1999-05-24 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-05-25 0:00 ` Gautier
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