Re: decompile

Date	2012-06-11 09:17 -0400
From	Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: decompile
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On 6/9/2012 2:22 PM, BartC wrote:
>
>
> "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody@spamcop.net> wrote in message
> news:mJadnVGzIeR7_E7SnZ2dnUVZ_qOdnZ2d@bestweb.net...
>> On 6/8/2012 2:34 PM, Fred wrote:
>
>>> it is possible to decompile a program to c?
>>
>> To summarize what the others have said:
>>
>> You can't make a cow from hamburgers.
>
> It may not be ethical, but you can probably feed hamburgers to a calf. End
> result is a cow (depending on what sort of calf it was).

Ah, but the cow you end up with would be indistinguishable from the cow you 
would have gotten even if you didn't feed it the hamburger.  And the 
resulting cow is not related to the cow from which the hamburger was made. 
(And who says that there was a single cow as the source of the burger?)

A closer analogy would be to take the DNA from the burger (you did save a 
copy of the DNA prior to cooking, didn't you?), and use it to make a clone 
of the original cow.  However, this analogy only works for quines.

-- 
Kenneth Brody

Thread

decompile "Fred" <you@your.domain> - 2012-06-08 20:34 +0200
  Re: decompile gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2012-06-08 18:48 +0000
    Re: decompile "Rowan K. Fullack III" <nospam@nospam.com> - 2012-06-09 19:03 +0000
  Re: decompile James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-06-08 14:53 -0400
  Re: decompile Jean-Christophe <5.d@free.fr> - 2012-06-08 12:00 -0700
  Re: decompile Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-06-08 14:15 -0700
    Re: decompile Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-06-08 17:38 -0400
      Re: decompile Jean-Christophe <5.d@free.fr> - 2012-06-08 14:46 -0700
  Re: decompile Datesfat Chicks <datesfat.chicks@gmail.com> - 2012-06-08 21:27 -0400
  Re: decompile Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2012-06-09 10:47 -0400
    Re: decompile Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-06-09 19:10 +0100
    Re: decompile "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-06-09 19:22 +0100
      Re: decompile Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2012-06-11 09:17 -0400
        Re: decompile pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-06-11 22:45 -0400
  Re: decompile Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-06-09 08:26 -0700
    Re: decompile gwowen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-06-11 02:01 -0700
  Re: decompile "Fred" <you@your.domain> - 2012-06-09 20:43 +0200
    Re: decompile Jean-Christophe <5.d@free.fr> - 2012-06-09 13:09 -0700
      Re: decompile Sorry you're right "Fred" <you@your.domain> - 2012-06-09 23:12 +0200
  Re: decompile John Bode <jfbode1029@gmail.com> - 2012-06-11 07:53 -0700
  Re: decompile Michael Angelo Ravera <maravera@prodigy.net> - 2012-06-13 13:20 -0700
  Re: decompile Dann Corbit <dcorbit@connx.com> - 2012-06-13 16:46 -0700
    Re: decompile gordonb.v9y2l@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2012-06-18 19:42 -0500

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