comp.lang.ada
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Brian Catlin" <BrianC@sannas.org.bad>
Subject: Re: Reverse Engineering
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 16:43:27 GMT
Date: 2004-09-08T16:43:27+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <PEG%c.1339$xA1.129@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: BcB%c.39735$cb5.21132@hydra.nntpserver.com

"Kelvin_K" <Kelvin_K@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:BcB%c.39735$cb5.21132@hydra.nntpserver.com...
> Does anyone know of a program that will reverse engineer .exe files compiled 
> with ada back into ada source code?
>
> With out going into detail, I have legitimate and legal reasons for doing 
> this.....

Going from Ada (or any other high-level language) to an executable file, 
involves a loss of information on a large scale.  So, trying to go from the 
executable back to the Ada source isn't possible.

It is similar to trying to convert a load of hamburger back into a cow

 -Brian





  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-08 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-08 10:31 Reverse Engineering Kelvin_K
2004-09-08 16:43 ` Brian Catlin [this message]
2004-09-08 17:33   ` tmoran
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-11-05  0:00 reverse engineering William Frye
1996-11-07  0:00 ` Art Schwarz
1996-11-08  0:00   ` Stephen Leake
1996-10-28  0:00 Reverse engineering David Tannen
1996-11-07  0:00 ` Ken Nelson
replies disabled

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox