Decompiler

yucao89 · Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 1:40 pm Post subject: Decompiler

Can some say to me how to decompile a program?

lghman · Guru Joined: 29 Nov 2002 Posts: 548 Location: Florida

First off what do u mean by DECOMPILE a program. Uninstall it or take it from binary computer code to regular human readable code. The latter of the two isnt possible, all you can do is take it from binary code to hex code. To make it hex code, just download any hex editor.

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bsolar · Bodhisattva Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 2764

A quick google showed up this document.
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yucao89

I have ultraedit on my dual boot windows! and how do you understand the HEX code. My question is can you traslate a binary program to a C++ / C source code?

David_Escott · l33t Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 952 Location: Boston, MA

There certainly are decompilers and dissasemblers, although I dont know how well they work (and I suspect they are compiler specific). I have seen JAD (a java decompiler before) and it works fairly well although many of the variables end up with not very descriptive generics like variable1 variable2 etc. I would try a sourceforge search if there is anything there you will probably find it. Keep in mind however that if you do use a decompiler and the write software based on the routines you find there I am fairly sure that you would be violating some kind of IP.

The binary is not really readable at all although an x86 dissassembler can make it a little better. If you want to learn some assemby you might try: http://linuxassembly.org/

yucao89 · Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 5:02 pm Post subject: I want to see the Dotnet

Everyone knows what is dotnet from microsoft. I wanna look there source code and try to edit IT! Thanks for your advice on JAva decompilers, i am a Java programmer, Thanks! I want to develop a dotnet for Linux

avendesora · Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 5:11 pm Post subject:

DotGNU Portable.NET
You might want to check this out.

yucao89 · Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 5:14 pm Post subject: Dotnet portable

Thanks

drahz · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: 80

here is a C decompiler link http://www.uncc.info/
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ssvb · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Nov 2003 Posts: 96

Here is another link: http://boomerang.sourceforge.net

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moocha · Watchman Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 5722

If you want a .NET decompiler, take a look at the excellent Reflector. For decompiling (and more generally program transformations), see http://www.program-transformation.org/.
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DarkStorm_Inc · Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 5:31 am Post subject:

its near impossible to find a decompiler than will decompile into C/C++ code.. more or less any decompiler you find will only output into assembly code that most people cant read, or cant read well.. for large programs anyway.. Besides.. id rather have something to decompile visual basic programs. There are a few VB programs I wouldnt mind translating to C that are not OS and port to linux

linux_girl · Apprentice Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 287

i am just wondering (dont know mutch about asm) is there a reliable way to fetche for possible security flaw by using a generic tool to audit the asm code ? like buffer overflows ... format string ...
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thebigslide · Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 6:13 am Post subject:

there are tools in portage for checking for buffer overflows. They are referenced in the gentoo hardened documentation.

SameGuy · n00b Joined: 14 Nov 2020 Posts: 3

Whether a program is decompilable or not depends on the language it was written.

Java, Python, C# artifacts are easily decompilable.

C++, Rust and other languages without intermediate bytecode representation can't be decompiled. But they can be disassembled.
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C5ace · Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2020 11:20 am Post subject:

Have look at www.hex-rays.com
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