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  1. Jun 11th, 2002, 02:17 PM #1
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    C++ Decompiler

    Hey,
    One question, we have some old code written in C++ and the source code is on a floppy that died many years ago.
    Any one know of a C++ decompiler that could work?

    I appreciate it.

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    No.




    You might be able to decompile it to C but you'd have a hell of a time working out the mangled names, overloaded functions, virtual functions, templates (), etc......

    What compiler did you use?


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  3. Jun 12th, 2002, 05:13 AM #3
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    Even harder, because the names are not preserved in a release build. You can disassemble, and some apps may be able to produce C code from that (not very good, and all functions and variables would just have names like xf_34), but no way C++ code. It's far too complex.
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