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Never heard of a decompiler I see.

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A decompiler doesnt give you access to the comments, variable names, which is an important part of every source code

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5 points

Meanwhile, AI is having a heyday with it…

https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.09029

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What’s cool is that you can interpret the var names yourself and rename them whatever you want.

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But it is extremely time-consuming. Open source code makes it transparent and easy to read, that’s what it is about: transparency

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A decompiler won’t give you the source code. Just some code that might not even necessarily work when compiled back.

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From the point of view of the decompiler machine code is indeed the source code though

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And? Decompilers aren’t for noobs. So what if it gives you variable and function names like A000, A001, etc?

It can still lead a seasoned programmer where to go in the raw machine code to mod some things.

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You’re actually chatting with a hacker that made No-CD hacks.

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7 points

Try converting from English to Japanese and back to English.

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xor ax, ax

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A fancy way to say do nothing is not the same as translating back and forth. Example: Show me the intermediate translation.

Also we live in a 64bit world now old man

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Still not the actual source code, bucko.

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No, it’s actually better when you can read the machine code.

Most folks don’t care to recompile the whole thing when all they wanna do is bypass the activation and tracker shit.

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Having access to the source code actually makes reading machine code easier, so you’re also wrong on this entirely different thing you’re going on about.

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