Building Program Understanding Tools Using Visitor Combinators by Transform.ArieVanDeursen and Transform.JoostVisser This paper describes how Transform.VisitorCombinators ...

Control flow analysis in decompilation convert conditional and non-conditional jump instructions into high-level language control constructs such as if/else, while ...

This information is pieced together from a few sources. I hope it is still accurate. In about 1985, Jim Reuter wrote decomp, a decompiler for the Vax BSD 4.2 (a.out ...

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 ...

The Decompilation Process The main problems with decompilation are the separation of data and code (i.e. obtaining a complete disassembly of the program), the reconstruction ...

History of Decompilation (1980-1999) See also On the Inverse of Compiling, April 1980. #TopicZebra Zebra, 1981 The Zebra prototype was developed at the Naval Underwater ...

Definition Program transformation is the act of changing one program into another. The term program transformation is also used for a program, or any other description ...

ON THE INVERSE OF COMPILING W.L. Caudle Sperry-UNIVAC 26 April 1980 1. INTRODUCTION It is fitting that the subject of program conversion aids and portability be a ...

The UVicReverseEngineeringTutorial defines program understanding as The task of building mental models of the underlying software at various abstraction levels, ranging ...

An overview of various forms of ProgramTransformation. Translation ProgramMigration ProgramSynthesis ProgramRefinement ProgramCompilation ReverseEngineering DeCompilation ...