4 Jul
2024
4 Jul
'24
12:16 a.m.
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2024 17:49:29 +0000
From: segaloco via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org>
P.S. On the note of old UNIX reverse engineering ideas, is anyone aware of any early
(early 80s and back) attempts to produce something akin to a C decompiler, something that
could effectively analyze assembly produced by a C compiler and make a good guess as to
what C made it up based on calling conventions, stack frames, known optimization
techniques, etc?
Yes: Dave Pare produced a C decompiler to analyze and fix bugs in PSL's (binary
distribution only) "Empire" game, and that set of tools was subsequently used to
analyze the Morris Worm in 1988.
https://www.empire.cx/newssept1694.html#interview
https://www.quora.com/What-was-it-like-to-experience-the-Morris-Worm/answer…
Erik Fair