[ros-dev] Boomerang

theUser BL theuserbl at hotmail.com
Thu Feb 23 14:35:16 CET 2006


At
http://www.reactos.org/pipermail/ros-dev/2006-February/007878.html
and on other places there is mentioned, that the way to audit is, to look at 
the ReactOS-Source-Code, look if it looks understandable.

The problem is, that is possible, that people disasseble MS-Windows-code and 
port then the Assembler-Code in stupid C code.
And - because  (not clean room) reverse engineering isn't allowed - all 
code, which looks stupd will be eliminated.

That was also discussed in a german forum. There someone have at
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/foren/go.shtml?read=1&msg_id=9920469&forum_id=93560
discribed, how a normal C program can be compiled to assebler code and an 
other people create stupied C code, where you can see, that it was reverse 
engineered.

But in the same forum, someone have mentioned, that there existing 
decompiler like Boomerang
http://boomerang.sourceforge.net/
which creates from binary code logical, easy to read C code. (Don't know 
before, that something like this exists).

Have a look at
http://boomerang.sourceforge.net/cando.php


I want with this mail only to say, that it would be very hard to find the 
reverse engineered code (if there existing one).


Greatings
theuserbl




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