Re: Help on disassembler/decompilers

harrison@necssd.NEC.COM (Mark Harrison)
11 Sep 90 18:56:45 GMT

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From: harrison@necssd.NEC.COM (Mark Harrison)
Keywords: code, assembler, debug
Organization: NEC America Inc. SSD, Irving, TX
References: <HOW.90Sep5173755@sundrops.ucdavis.edu> <2900@network.ucsd.edu> <1990Sep9.010032.23235@sco.COM>
Date: 11 Sep 90 18:56:45 GMT

In article <1990Sep9.010032.23235@sco.COM>, seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) writes:


> As I've pointed out before, someone once wrote a decompiler for the VAX,
> which I've played with. It *knew* how PCC generated code, so, after
> "disassembling" (internal use only, generally; it didn't try to decompile
> assembly text, in other words), so it would structure the code generated
> from that.


On a related topic, does anyone know of any research into machine
translation of hand-written assembly code into a HLL?
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