Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!spdcc!esegue!compilers-sender From: harrison@necssd.NEC.COM (Mark Harrison) Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Help on disassembler/decompilers Keywords: code, assembler, debug Message-ID: <433@necssd.NEC.COM> Date: 11 Sep 90 18:56:45 GMT References: <2900@network.ucsd.edu> <1990Sep9.010032.23235@sco.COM> Sender: compilers-sender@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us Reply-To: harrison@necssd.NEC.COM (Mark Harrison) Organization: NEC America Inc. SSD, Irving, TX Lines: 18 Approved: compilers@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us 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? -- Mark Harrison harrison@necssd.NEC.COM (214)518-5050 {necntc, cs.utexas.edu}!necssd!harrison [How about all those Autocoder to Cobol translators there were 30 years ago? -John] -- Send compilers articles to compilers@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us {ima | spdcc | world}!esegue. Meta-mail to compilers-request@esegue.