Compiler-Specific or Pattern Matching Decompilers

This approach tries to find the reverse mapping of the executable to the source based on analysing the output generated by a specific compiler. This will usually give better results with respect to generating source code that resembles the original source code. This approach is limited in the sense that a decompiler has to be constructed for each individual compiler.

• KevinQuitt's approach.

• DoDi (Hans-Peter Diettrich, author of VBDis 3/4/5)

• Visual Basic Decompilers

• The Royal Holloway University of London has a Analog Devices ADSP-21xx assembly language to ANSI-C "reverse compiler". See Asm21ToC.

• Disinformation Decompiler for Infocom interactive fiction games.

• Decomp Decompiler

• About the NELIAC decompiler, probably the first recorded decompiler.

• disC for Turbo C 2.0/2.01.

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