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From: pardo@uw-june.UUCP (David Keppel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: self-replicating program
Message-ID: <3881@uw-june.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 87 04:02:18 GMT
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Reply-To: pardo@uw-june.UUCP (David Keppel)
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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[Does anybody know about efforts to write a decompiler?]

Somebody at UCBerkeley some (more than 3, less than 10) years ago wrote
a C decompiler.  He managed to get it working well enough to decompile
rogue.  Might have even been his master's thesis.  If anybody is seriously
interested, send me mail & I will try bombarding some of friends there and
see if anybody can remember his name.

There is another problem in decompiling C: macros.  If you get fancy you
can recognize getchar() and putchar(c), but user-defined macros get lost.

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