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

Author: James Swafford

Date: 05:30:51 02/04/06

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On February 04, 2006 at 01:53:28, Joseph Tadeusz wrote:

[snip]

>
>You said: "100% correct decompilation is PROVABLY impossible"
>
>I understood you meant 'for any program',
>but I suppose you meant 'for all programs'.


That's generally what that statement means.  The halting problem
is proven to be uncomputable, though you can certainly figure it
out for some programs.

--
James




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