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Famous Last Words: You can't decompile a C++ program

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the decompile-this dept.

The Great Jack Schitt writes "I've always heard that you couldn't decompile a program written with C++. This article describes how to do it. It's a bit lengthy and it doesn't seem like the author usually writes in English, but it might just work (haven't tried it, but will when I have time)."

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  1. You can't by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Information is lost in compilation. You can never reconstruct the exact original source. You end up with valid C++ that has no more human-understandable information than the equivilent machine code.

    Like turning hamburgers into cows...

  2. Why not? by bazik · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've always heard that you couldn't decompile a program written with C++.

    Well, you can decompile every binary programm at least to assembler code, so why shouldnt it possible with C++?

    Maybe he ment "you can't decipher the source of a C++ programm" ;)

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  3. Re:Why by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You need reasons?

    1) Finding backdoors
    2) Testing security
    3) Fixing bugs
    4) Adding features
    5) Discovering copyright violations
    6) Interfacing to non-supported clients

    Pretty much anything and everything you would do if you had the source.