[ros-dev] Boomerang

[Maarten Bosma]

Hi,

theUser BL wrote:
> 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).

I did already try it before: It does not work reliable yet. It most case 
it just crashes if you use it on an windows binary.

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

Quote from Alex Ionescu:
> In the end, one of the best ways to figure out if something is reversed 
> is not the code style, but the code quality. You tell yourself "Ok..so 
> here we have a low-level kernel function that no driver out there uses, 
> and which has absolutely no test case, but has 500 lines of perfectly 
> implemented code which seem to magically know how to handle every 
> combination of parameters, flags and situations. How was this coded?" 


Maarten Bosma