Using a decompiler for real-world source recovery

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 27-36

  Van Emmerik, Mike ^a   Waddington, Trent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decompilation; Experience; Native executable file; Reverse engineering; Source code recovery

Indexed keywords

DECOMPILATION; DECOMPILERS; NATIVE EXECUTABLE FILES; SOURCE CODE RECOVERY;

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; FILE ORGANIZATION; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

EID: 18144399312     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2004.42     Document Type: Conference Paper

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