abs file

[Canario]

Hi,
I have an *.abs file, that is a compiled C program.
I know this is a silly question, but is there a way to obtain the C source code for this file?

Thank you very much!

[matsp]

Yup, if you do me the favour of inventing a machine that can separate cake into eggs, flour, sugar and water, I'm sure soon after someone will come up with a reverse compilers...

Honestly, yes, it's possible to create something that is C code, but it will NOT be the source-code of the application as it was written. It may be a bit more readable than the disassembled assembler, but it's certainly nothing like C code that any human would have written, and it certainly won't be a good basis to extend/change the application. If the code is optimized, the compiler will have "scrambled" the instructions to improve the performance, which means that something that looks reasonable to a human in source code, like this:

x = 1;
y = 2;
a = 100; 
b = 200;

would perhaps come to:

v1 = 100; 
v2 = 1; 
v3 = v2+1;
v4 = 2 * v1;

But that has a completely different meaning in a bigger picture - but the compiler decided that it would make that change.

Data structures will most likely be lost, as will variable names.

--
Mats

[QuantumPete]

Hi,
I have an *.abs file, that is a compiled C program.
I know this is a silly question, but is there a way to obtain the C source code for this file?

Thank you very much!

E-mail the author of the .abs file