This page is my refutation of a Frequently Asked Question answer on decompilation. The original page is difficult to find now in its complete form, so I have archived ...

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

Is Decompilation Possible? Almost every week requests for decompilation programs are made in newsgroups (like comp.lang.c), and these are usually replied with: It ...