Talk:Decompiler

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In the process of "merging" decompilation and this article decompiler, a fair bit of material has been cut. For example, the idea that entry points to DLLs produce better output; I would argue that this is one of the jobs of a good decompiler. Other snipped material suggests that a symbol table is important; I argue that the symbols can be edited post decompilation. There is also the observation that decompilation is the inverse of compilation; I suggest that this is obvious from the term itself.

I think we could also lose the "See Also" section. "Decompilation" is now almost a redirect back to this article, and the other terms seem weakly related to me, apart from "disassembler", which is already linked from the main text. This will make it a slim article, but I don't think that much more if any belongs here. I'm writing a theis on this subject, so I could add plenty more, but I don't think that much more belongs in an encyclopedia.

Comments welcome. --Mike Van Emmerik 8 July 2005 13:11 (UTC)

Thanks, Mike Van Emmerik. I don't know much about decompilation/decompilers myself, so I figured I probably shouldn't be the one to merge the two articles. -Hyad 21:44, July 9, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Reverse Engineering Wikibook

I've started a wikibook on Wikibooks:Reverse Engineering. It has several chapters so far, but because of low readership, and few contributers, we have been unable to give particularly good coverage to topics such as decompilation or disassembly. I think that a complete (or mostly complete) wikibook on reverse engineering would be an excellent free resource for people interested in the field. On that note, if anybody who reads this would like to contribute to the wikibook, feel free to stop on by and share your knowledge. --Whiteknight 14:07, 12 October 2005 (UTC)