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- From: jdmorris@ix.netcom.com (Jason D. Morris)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: HELP how to go from a.out back to C++
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 02:48:26 GMT
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- On 18 Mar 1996 23:44:38 GMT, kjessani@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Karim
- Jessani) wrote:
-
- >I want to know...how can i go back from an exectuable file...back to my original
- >c++ code....
-
- It can't be done. When your C++ code is translated to
- assembler/machine code. The high level class structure and variable
- names are stripped away, not to mention the effect compiler
- optimizations would have. The best you can hope for is to get an
- assembler listing.
-
- Jason
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