ARM: Compiling in debug mode

May 23, 2006 3 Replies

Hi, can anyone tell me if a library (.lib) that was generated by compiling some C source code with ARM in debug mode could be used to completely "see" the source code by some decompilation programme ?



Seriously unlikely.

Decompilation of compiled code works about as well as degrinding hamburgers back into cows. I.e., it doesn't.

Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de) Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.

That's true. There's no way to reconstruct the original source code exactly (e.g. comments are completely gone).

However, though it's a bit tedious it's not that difficult to reverse-engineer the algorithms used by the original library -- especially if debug symbols are there.

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Thanx for responding folks.

Do you know the way to reverse-engineer a library ? Is there any utility available ?

My problem is that: i sent a .lib file > > >> Hi, can anyone tell me if a library (.lib) that was generated by

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