Out of curiosity, is there a way to extract the machine code encoded in .o files into a human readable, say, .cpp file?
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Out of curiosity, is there a way to extract the machine code encoded in .o files into a human readable, say, .cpp file?
If there was a way, identifiers would not have their names preserved and the code would be difficult to make sense of.
You mean like a decompiler? If that's the case, you might want to check out Boomerang, it's been used to recover actual code from executables, but I believe it's still considered beta.
And on that note, good luck.
thanks, i agree still in alpha : ) but nevertheless, nice try!
> is there a way to extract the machine code encoded in .o files into a human readable
Well you can use objdump to get back to the assembler very easily.