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Re: [AVR-Chat] REVERSE ENGINEERING

2009-06-25 by Bob Paddock

> The code may not have
> been written in assembly, and assembly instructions are all that you
> will be able to read back. I've yet to see an assembly to C translator
> or assembly to Basic translator, depending upon the original language
> the developers used to create the code.

Ida is good, I've used it in the past to work on some EDM machines
where the manufacture was long dead.  That was a few generations
ago, Ida looks better now:

http://www.hex-rays.com/idapro/

Even better might be the new product, that I've not used,
http://www.hex-rays.com/decompiler.shtml to get you
back to C faster.

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