convert x86 assembly to c ?

Does anyone know of a good tool to convert x86 assembly to C code ?


Even slow C code equivalent of assembly would be good.


Surely someone has a half done parser out there !


I do have the license for the code. The code is written as a Win16
app but I am trying to port it to Win32. C code would be much, much
easier to port.


Thanks,
Lynn McGuire
[This question has come up over the years many times, and the answer is
that it's a really hard problem. Austin Code Works did an x86 to C
translator ten or 15 years ago which worked, but wasn't very useful
because the C code was just a a transliteration of the x86 code with
variable names like ax and ebp. I've seen some work on recovering
code from Vaxes, again a while ago. On the other hand, there's a lot
of work going on in binary translation, turning one kind of object
code to another. Look at the comp.compilers archives for messages
and conference announcements. -John]

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