From: Nate Eldredge Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Reverse-compiler Date: 31 Mar 2000 17:06:40 -0800 Organization: InterWorld Communications Lines: 27 Message-ID: <83snx6sk7z.fsf@mercury.st.hmc.edu> References: <8c3eae$j1l$1 AT news6 DOT svr DOT pol DOT co DOT uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.st.hmc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: nntp1.interworld.net 954551289 23305 134.173.45.219 (1 Apr 2000 01:08:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT nntp1 DOT interworld DOT net NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Apr 2000 01:08:09 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.5 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com "Ben Davis" writes: > OK. Now this is going to sound stupid. > > GCC *very* cleverly managed to delete my source code :-( probably because I > got the command line wrong. I still have the executable, with debugging info > but optimised. I also have a makefile (which didn't work; RHIDE created it, > but it wasn't linking with the Allegro library), and I have the RHIDE > project files. > > The source was written in C. > > I need to generate the source from the executable, as best as possible. Is > the required program part of the standard DJGPP distribution? If so, what is > it called? If not, where can I get such a program? Generally, you can't. Sorry. Even if you could, it would bear no resemblance to your original source. You can disassemble it if you want; use objdump. But you can't get C source back. Did I mention backups are a good idea? (You might also check for things like auto-save files from your editor...) -- Nate Eldredge neldredge AT hmc DOT edu