On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Randy Poon wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I heard somebody said, we can get back the source code from a Java executable
> program easily by running some reverse engineering software. Is this true? Does
> the same apply to the C Language? If so, our C programs will be highly
> unprotected, which is something I don't want to see!

You have to first obtain the object code / binary, but once you have that,
and know the type of processor it was compiled for, it could be reverse
engineered into source code again.  The ones I've seen won't necessarily
have the same code labels as in your original source, since many
(most) compiled binaries don't contain them.  That would not, however,
keep the decompiler from assigning arbitrary labels to points in code it
sees as being "called" or "jmp"ed to.

-- Mitch

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