ANT is a Java based tool for `making' software. It is described as ``make without makes' wrinkles''. Although it is meant for more languages than just Java, its main ...

The DeCompilation Wiki pages are a part of the program transformation Wiki. They are based on Cifuentes' decompilation pages (1998 2001), which were based on pages ...

Description Object­oriented programs are easier to extend than programs which are not written in an object­oriented style, but object­oriented programs are still ...

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 ...

BAKE is a replacement for MAKE. Its aim is to solve recursion in make and do more compiles in parallel. Development ceased in 1999. http://bake.werken.com/

BAU is a MAKE like tool, written in Scheme. According to the webpage it can do everything MAKE does, with a few features from Tools.AutoMake. Development seems to ...

BENEVOL 2004 2nd BElgium Netherlands Workshop on software EVOLution Location: UA, Antwerpen Date: July 8-9, 2004 Sponsors: Lunch and dinner are sponsored by the two ...

This page was rescued from Google's cache of http://orion.planet.de/~jan/Snippets.9707/ g0311.html . G.3.17 decompil.txt Date last modified: 05-Jul-1997 Question: ...

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 ...

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 ...

CONS is a replacement for make, written in Perl. It is not compatible with make. http://www.dsmit.com/cons/

http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/cook/cook.html Cook is a replacement for make.

The Australian company Mayon Software Research sells a visual Java decompiler called ClassCracker. ClassCracker contains 3 applications in one: a disassembler, a class ...

CodeBuildingEnvironment is a cvs like tool, which also stores some configuration stuff. The developers claim that it has got MAKE like features. It is written in Java ...

Colm: COmputer Language Manipulation Homepage: http://www.complang.org/colm/ Colm is a programming language designed for the analysis and transformation of computer ...

Various browsers have trouble with the tab character used in the TextFormattingRules. If you can't type a tab, or, if you are fixing up a page written by someone who ...

The daVinci system uses terms to represent graphs, which distinguishes it from all other graph formats. Terms make the format not easy to read and hard to write. A ...

Visual Basic Discompiler (Decompiler) Defeater This page only exists in archive.org for December 1996, which may be the boundary of the archive. In case it disappears ...

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 ...

McGill's "Dava" Java Decompiler TOC Dava tests The Sable group at McGill University, under the leadership of Professor Laurie Hendren, are working on a framework ...

Question 38.4 of the C++ FAQ LITE demonstrates a typical negative reaction to the basic question "how can I decompile a C++ executable file?". I don't mean any offense ...

If you have a specific decompilation problem for which you need help, you can describe it here. Someone knowing the solution might visit the page and help you. (See ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

This page contains links to projects peripherally related to decompilation. TOC Binary files Information on the internal format of binary files at the Wotsit's File ...

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 ...

In a poorly designed decompiler (including all current decompilers and also disassemblers), a graphical user interface (GUI) or equivalent (e.g. Sourcer's specification ...

Digital Signal Processors are processors with special features for fast processing of signals. It is a challenge to write programs for these architectures that are ...

Hans-Peter Diettrich, better known as DoDi, is author of a well-known set of Visual Basic decompilers (VBDis 3/4/5), and has worked on decompilers for executables ...

This page is intended to discuss the question Is Domain Engineering compatible with Agile Software Development? Given the current popularity of agile methodologies ...

.NET Decompiler Comparison See Net Decompiler Tests .NET Decompilers Salamander is a commercial decompiler for .NET. The web page allows decompiling of moderately ...

A beta-release of the decompiler exec2c by Scott Guthery was distributed to beta testers in 1991. The program is copyrighted by `The Austin Code Works and Polyglot ...

FoxBase/FoxPro/Clipper I don't know much about Foxbase. Pointers welcome. ReFox http://www.hieroglyphix.co.uk/refox.php from http://www.xitech-europe.co.uk (ReFox ...

GMake is the Gnu version of the MAKE tool. It has a different `dialect' compared to other versions of the MAKE tool (like the Solaris or Bsd versions). http://www ...

GNU GENERAL(?) PUBLIC(?) LICENSE(?) Version 2, June 1991 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 1.9 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA(?) 02111 ...

GenericSetup aims to replace Tools.AutoMake, Tools.AutoConf and LibTool. Development has stopped long ago. http://sourceforge.net/projects/gsetup/

The GnuProjectToolKit packages Tools.AutoMake, LibTool, Tools.AutoConf, etc. in one package. http://sourceforge.net/projects/osdtk/

History of Decompilation (1960-1979) Decompilers have been written for a variety of applications since the development of the first compilers. The very first decompiler ...

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 ...

An IntegratedDevelopmentEnvironment is a tool for software development. Usually it is a graphical tool optimized for Rapid Application Development. It contains an ...

Description Intentional programming developed at Microsoft Research Ait98 is a method for extending a language with new constructs or intentions . The meaning of ...

JMK is an implementation of MAKE in Java. Its syntax is very make like but only Java is supported. http://sourceforge.net/projects/jmk/

JamMR is a MAKE like tool. It has a MAKE like syntax, but it is `easier' to build Jam files. In my view they lost some of the power of make, though. It is aimed at ...

Not to be confused with IMake, JavaIMake is a platform independent make processor. It is written in Java and it requires Java to run. It is a commercial product. http ...

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 ...

LamdaMake is an initiative to extend make with `user defined macro like functions, allowing dependencies to span makefiles'. However, this functionality can be achieved ...

If decompilation is possible to a certain extent, is it then also allowed? Decompilation can be used for a number of reasons (see WhyDecompilation for more), including ...

Little Languages: Little Maintenance? By ArieVanDeursen and PaulKlint JournalOfSoftwareMaintenance, 10 :75-92, 1998 Abstract So-called little, or DomainSpecificLanguages ...

The make tool is a tool to make software development easier. It gives the developer the possibility to define targets, with additional commands for compilation. Unfortunately ...

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 ...

A Case Study of Open Source Software Development The XT bundle of program transformation tools is an example of OpenSourceAcademicSoftware. Motivation for XT distribution ...

Why Researchers should produce Open Source Software Many research activities, escpecially in the field of computer science, involve the development of software. Sometimes ...

Technology for Production of Open Source Distributions automake autoconf GNU tools build files package configuration bundle configuration WikiWiki CVS Next: OsasCaseStudy ...

Commercial tool. From the web page: PE Explorer is a tool for inspecting and editing the inner workings of Windows 32-bit executable files: EXE, DLL, OCX, and several ...

PREA Panel on Reverse Engineering and Architectural evolution Co-located with CSMR 2002 Tuesday 12 March 2002, 14:00 16:00 ReverseEngineering is the process of recovering ...

The PILER Decompilation System TOC The PILER decompilation system is documented in Barb74 . However, this document is probably only available in Microfiche form, ...

Practical Reusable UNIX Software Krishnamurthy (editor) John Wiley Sons, 1995. Book about a collection of software from AT T Research Labs including AcaCia / CIAO ...

Definition Refactoring is typically applied at the level of programs (i.e., source code). A program refactoring is a program transformation that improves the design ...

http://www.glossa.co.uk/reap.html GRAY The REAP tools by InterGlossa Ltd support reverse engineering services, especially for microcontrollers such as the Zilog Z80 ...

Contact Arne de Bruijn arbruijn@students.cs.uu.nl Martin Bravenboer mbravenb@students.cs.uu.nl Topics Progress Testing Programs Documents Links Ideas Progress ...

A parser is an essential component of a TransformationSystem. It is often a considerable investment to develop a good syntax definition for use in a transformation ...

The ReverseAndReengineeringTaxonomy defines reverse engineering as: The process of analyzing a subject system with two goals in mind: 1 to identify the system's components ...

A sample RCL script that is used to pre-process the RSF generated with cparse for Rigi has been written by JohannesMartin. The RCL script is generic and works for ...

This topic provides information for Rigi developers that work with source code. See RigiInstall if you work with Rigi's precompiled distributions. Compilation of RigiEdit ...

Rigi Q A In this document the following tools are frequently mentioned: sortrsf (See SortRSF) htmlrsf (See HtmlRSF) rigiedit (See RigiEdit) Q: rigiedit is dog-slow ...

This topic provides information for users of Rigi binary distributions. See also RigiDevelopment if you work with Rigi's source code. Installing RigiEdit basically ...

Definitions Here are some attempts at definitions of rule-based programming. Feel free to comment or add your own. The rule-based programming paradigm is characterized ...

SMake is a tool to produce standard Makefiles from templates. It's not as advanced as Tools.AutoMake. http://freshmeat.net/projects/smake/

Scientific Toolworks, Inc. We make tools that help developers understand, document, and maintain impossibly large or complex amounts of source code. What our tools ...

Homepage : http://www.saxproject.org/ The Simple API for XML (SAX) is a standard interface for event-based XML parsing. Because of the event-based approach the interface ...

Software configuration is concerned with creating different specializations of a software artifact for different environments. (See also VariabilityManagement) Configuration ...

The Software Improvement Group is a young company offering tools that help businesses deal with their (Cobol) legacy systems. We're offering services in three areas ...

Definitions Software maintenance is defined by the ANSI/IEEE Std. 729-1983 and IEEE Std. 1219-1998 as: modification of a software product after delivery to correct ...

With the advent of set top boxes, mobile software, and other factors, software authors are wanting to create applications that are resistant to reverse engineering ...

First Tip: Find something what your are interested in and then make your contribution by adding text to a current page (like this one) or adding a link to a current ...

http://www.autistici.org/uncc/ Was at http://www.uncc.info (now for sale) uncc is a tiny decompiler for X86 binary files. It uses objdump as a disassembler, and uses ...

For Visual Basic programs compiled to .NET (e.g. with Visual Studio .NET 2003 or later), see DotNetDecompilers. JosephCo wrote a decompiler called Exdec. VBDis 3/4 ...

See also the announcements about specific systems in SystemNews. STARTINCLUDE STOPINCLUDE 2007-01-08 program-transformation.org is back online after absence for a ...

The following settings are web preferences of the TWiki.Transform web. These preferences overwrite the site-level preferences in TWIKIWEB . WIKIPREFSTOPIC , and can ...

Simple search: Topic text (body) All webs (not only TWiki.Transform web) Topic name TWIKIWEB .BookView Advanced search: Topic text (body) Search all MAINWEB TWIKIWEB ...

Why decompilation? Why not just disassemble? Consider the Java world, where there are simple disassemblers and sophisticated decompilers that often work well and ...

The software on which this WikiWikiWeb runs is starting to become antiquated. It lacks many features that would be useful in a Wiki. It is also a problem that it does ...

2002 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Rule-Based Programming Workshop Program Satellite event of PLI'02 Saturday, October 5, 2002 Pittsburgh, USA http://www.program-transformation ...