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Name: Anonymous 2011-12-28 19:06

If disassembling a program is a easy task to do and compiling a program from org src -> assembly -> machine code is a easy task then why is machine code -> assembly -> org src such a hard task?


For languages like C/C++,etc

Name: Anonymous 2011-12-28 19:19

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But then wouldn't the decompiled org src then look like a super OPTIMIZED version of the true org src?
Sure it would. There are such `decompilers', but their output isn't any more helpful than just reading the disassembly. The optimizations performed on non-trivial programs can be surprisingly brutal.

You might want to read a book about how compilers actually work. Aho-Lam-Sethi-Ullman is ok.

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