de-compile

[lucas98146]

it appears to me that most commercial software is written in c nowdays and would like to know if anyone s knows a a de-compiler, i know the comment(remarks) would not be there but is their anything that would generate the basic c code from a compiled program?.

[df]

in the old days, there were some programs that understood compiled BC++ 3.1 programs and turbo c, and a few other compilers, back in the dos days.

i have not seen these kinds of programs for a long time. there was a company that had a vc6 decompiler. i remember seeing an add in ddj for it.. but not seen anything since...

i dont like your chances.

[Muk108]

Most programs now when they are compiled are compiled into bianry so unless you can compile somethign from bianry to C i dont think its going to happen.

[rock]

There are a number of tools to decompile byte code (Java, VB, compiled html, Mathematica), but decompile C, C++, even Fortran is a lot more tricky. There are people out there who do it for $$ (http://www.jassing.com/decompilefox.htm), but when you're looking at commercial code for a large application, tools will be hard to find. First off because it's a difficult task; secondly because it's illegal.