guthery@acw.com (Scott Guthery) (04/23/91)
About a year ago I asked for beta testers for an MS-DOS EXE-to-C decompiler and about 20 hearty souls stepped forward. Their answer was "No." so we went back to the drawing boards. Well, we're back with another try and looking for beta testers again. If you'd be interested in taking this model out for a test drive, send me your postal address and I'll send back a diskette and a questionnaire. Thanks, Scott Austin Code Works NET Domain: guthery@uunet.uu.net Post: 11100 Leafwood Lane COM Domain: guthery@acw.com Austin, Texas 78750-3464 USA US Domain: guthery@acw.austin.tx.us FAX: +1 (512) 258-1342 Usenet: {uunet}!acw!guthery Voice: +1 (512) 258-0785 CompuServe: 70240,221 Fidonet: 1:382/12 Packet: N5MDE @ KB5PM Prodigy: BCDG83A -- Send compilers articles to compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us or {ima | spdcc | world}!iecc!compilers. Meta-mail to compilers-request.
carter@cs.wisc.edu (Gregory Carter) (04/26/91)
I had a decompiler for my old machine made by Microsoft, (don't ask how I got it please), it seemed NICE for small programs but for larger programs I would like to make a suggestion(s): 1) Tag the machine program input in such a way so that one can see what parts of the C source are related to what, and how. (Machine registers, memory models, code blocks relevant to source out) 2) Make it reverse engineered compatible with code view...now thats a challenge...so that you can watch that source and machine code side by side. (It must run both ways and yield EXACTLY the same machine code) 3) Document source code block pertaining to relevant system calls... (Interupt IRQ calls (maybe even the level code?), bios, etc.) 4) try not to drink too much Jolt while trying to do this...OK? 5) Of course, try like hell not to get sued from releasing such a product by everyone who applies in C. (I know if you use that thing on my system software I would sue you till you thought you were a TYME machine out of control) When you get it done, make me a beta tester! Greg Carter Digital Communications Research/Engineering 2726 West Point Road Green Bay, WI 54304 -- Send compilers articles to compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us or {ima | spdcc | world}!iecc!compilers. Meta-mail to compilers-request.