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From: kurt@hi.UUCP (Kurt Zeilenga)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: self-replicating program
Message-ID: <21773@hi.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 87 03:45:52 GMT
References: <10921@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: kurt@hc.dspo.gov (Kurt Zeilenga)
Organization: U. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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In article <10921@brl-adm.ARPA> ADLER1%BRANDEIS.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU writes:
>I enjoyed the recent posting of programs written in high level languages
>whiich replicate their own source code. But upon reflection, it occurred
>to me that what I would really love to see would be a program which
>replicates the source code of other programs. How often has one obtained
>a copy of executable code with no source and no documentation ? It would
>be great to have a program which could throw together source code which
>could plausibly have given rise to the given executable, preferably in
>a choice of higher level languages.
>
>Has anyone ever encountered such a facility ?
>
>ADLER1@BRANDEIS.BITNET

A lot of systems actually do provide such a program.  It's called a
disassembler.

-- 
	Kurt (zeilenga@hc.dspo.gov)