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Subject: Re: source code can be retrieved from an engine

Author: Sebastian Leibnitz

Date: 13:27:17 01/28/06

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On January 28, 2006 at 16:07:15, Uri Blass wrote:

>On January 28, 2006 at 15:54:46, Sebastian Leibnitz wrote:
>
>>Look here:
>>
>>http://www.program-transformation.org/Transform/AutomaticDecompiler
>
>Thanks
>
>If I understand correctly it is even not possible to get assembly code of a
>program automatically and the user need to guess things.
>
>Uri


Yes, mostly.

If you are lucky (and the program is really not complex) a good dissassembler
will sometimes generate code that can compile and run.
It wont be easily readable though. And it will be a once in a blue moon
experience.



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