From:	Chris Holmes <cholmes AT surfsouth DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: decompilation - of course!
Date:	Sun, 08 Aug 1999 13:32:32 -0400
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Radical NetSurfer wrote:
> 
> Its not impossible,
> Its not as difficult as some would have you believe.

  I beg to differ.  It's extremely easy to disassemble something, but
you can (probably) never produce the original source code.  For one,
you lose all variable names.  Also, most compilers will unroll some of
your loops and add new variables and take some away.  It's not easy
to build structures back once they have been optimized by the compiler.

  Chris

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