Every few months, I get an email asking where to find an automatic decompiler that will take a binary as input and produce good quality C or C++ code for maintaining ...

Binary Translation What is binary translation Binary tanslation is the process of automatically translating binary object code from one machine Mi to another. The ...

History of PC based C-compilers Originally, there were Lattice C (the big gun), Wizard, Datalight, Ecosoft, DeSmet, Mix, Whitesmiths, BDS C, Manx Aztec C, and another ...

CategoryDecompilation: pages devoted to DeCompilation. SEARCH{search "CategoryDecompilation" nosummary "on" scope "text" header "" nosearch "on" web "Transform" format ...

http://codebreakers-journal.com/ "Journal for Algorithms, Virus-Research, Software-Protection and Reverse Code Engineering". Seems to be peer reviewed, published 3 ...

The following companies offer decompilation services (from binary code or assembly code). The techniques used by these companies are usually proprietary, but often ...

RESUME MAURICE HOWARD HALSTEAD BA University of California, Berkeley 1940 MS U. S. Naval academy1 pas (Annapolis) 1943 PhD Johns Hopkins (Baltimore) 1951 PROFESSIONAL ...

Decompilation is a ProgramTransformation by which a high-level source code for an executable program is discovered. Decompilation is the inverse of ProgramCompilation ...

This is the readme file for the "decomp" decompiler by Jim Reuter. This README file describes the decompiler that resides in this directory. WHAT IT IS: The decompiler ...

Anakrino .NET to C# Decompiler Tests Anakrino is a .NET to C# decompiler, released under a BSD-like license. These tests refer to "Interim #9" (Anakrino9.zip). Anakrino ...

The Boomerang Decompiler and Tests Boomerang is an attempt at a complete, retargetable decompiler for native executable programs, released under a BSD style (open ...

Jad Java Decompiler Simple Tests TOC This page performs some tests on JAD version 1.5.8e. Output has been trimmed slightly for ease of comparison to the original ...

JODE open source Java Decompiler Simple Tests TOC Fibo For source, see DecompilerFiboTestSource. Decompiled source from JODE: / Fibo Decompiled by JODE Visit http ...

JReversePro (Java Decompiler) Simple Tests I installed JReversePro version 1.4.1 (binary distribution; Sourceforge page is here). TOC Fibo For source, see DecompilerFiboTestSource ...

NMI Java Code Viewer This is a commercial bytecode to Java decompiler and disassembler. It runs under Windows only, even though it claims to have been written in ...

Reflector .NET to C# Decompiler Tests Reflector is a .NET browser with an integrated C# decompiler. It will also display the code "translated" into Visual Basic or ...

Source Again Java Decompiler Tests TOC Ahpah kindly provided a copy of Source Again Professional version 1.10j (a commercial decompiler). Earlier tests were based ...

Salamander .NET to C# Decompiler Tests Salamander is a commercial .NET to C# decompiler. TOC Fibo For source, see DecompilerFiboDotNetSource. Decompiled source from ...

This is another test from the paper "Decompiling Java Bytecode: Problems, Traps and Pitfalls", Figure 5. The source code as adapted to C# is: using System; class Foo ...

This is a simple program, compiled with the Mono C# compiler, no optimisation. Here is the original C# source code: using System; class Fibo { private static int fib ...

This class is also from the book Decompiling Java, this time chapter 3: using System; public class Usa { public String name "Detroit"; public class England { public ...

The paper "Decompiling Java Bytecode: Problems, Traps and Pitfalls" contains a small but important test program (adapted from a concatenation of 4 Java source files ...

http://www.debugmode.com/dcompile/disc.htm The disC page describes a crude decompiler for DOS Turbo C 2.0 and 2.01 programs. The source is free to download. The author ...

I have collected tests from various places, and tested .NET to C# decompilers that I could get access to for free. Salamander tests Anakrino tests Reflector tests ...

The Father of Decompilation ATTACHURL /maury.jpg \ ATTACHURL /maurysig.jpg Permission Requested. IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering. \ Figure courtesy of Bill ...

FermaT is developed by Software Migrations Ltd, based on the work of Martin Ward (Martin.Ward@durham.ac.uk). FermaT is an industrial strength program transformation ...

Kevin D. Quitt wrote the following, about his compiler specific approach: 1. The executable has to be examined to see if it's a compressed executable (like what PKLITE ...

New-style EXE Format An executable (.EXE) file for the Windows operating system contains a combination of code and data or a combination of code, data, and resources ...

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nr/toolkit/ The New Jersey Machine-Code (NJMC) Toolkit helps programmers write applications that process machine code assemblers, disassemblers ...

http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk:80/archive/redo/ From the site: "This archive contains information relevant to the ESPRIT II REDO project (no. 2487, 1989-1992) concerned ...

TOC Introduction Below the main pages of the ReengineeringWiki are listed. It provides an overview of the topics currently discussed. The map below is partly generated ...

250 Machine-Independent Computer Programming TABLE XIII MACHINE LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION REPERTOIRE OF THE UNIVAC M-46O COUNTESS COMPUTER FF Function FF Function 00 Illegal ...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nktspeview VX Portable Executable Viewer is an open source project hosted on Sourceforge. From the web page: Browse the structure of ...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/02/PE/default.aspx (part 1) http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/03/pe2/default.aspx (part 2) "An In-Depth Look ...