Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 13:19:31 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, David Oppenheimer wrote:

> I must strenuously disagree here.  First, if disassembly were impossible, then
> why would programmers waste their time programming disassemlers?!  Secondly,
> if it were impossible, then why would people pay good money for these
> disassembler programs?!

There must be a misunderstanding here, perhaps on my part.  The Subject 
says "Decompiler", not "Disassembler".  The former, as I understand it, 
means a program that reconstructs the original C source from an 
executable image.  Disassembler is something different; every debugger 
usually has a built-in disassembler.