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[dfshortbus]

Decompilers exist. I even remember seeing a few in my day. But they don't maintain variable names (or class names, or etc...) so for larger programs they are pretty useless.

[Mohreb el Yasim]

Decompilers exist. I even remember seeing a few in my day. But they don't maintain variable names (or class names, or etc...) so for larger programs they are pretty useless.

normal, programs dont keep variable names if compiled ...

[dfshortbus]

Quote from: dfshortbus on Today at 04:28:18 am
Decompilers exist. I even remember seeing a few in my day. But they don't maintain variable names (or class names, or etc...) so for larger programs they are pretty useless.

normal, programs dont keep variable names if compiled ...

You are correct. That is what I was saying before. But I guess if he really wanted to he could decompile it and step thru the code. But personally I think that would be pretty useless unless he was trying to make a small change.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Some decompilers can make guesses on names of variables and other stuff, if the environment used to create the program is known, and has specific "standards" in that regard. Otherwise yeah, you get a heap of generic variable names.

[TheSpaceMan]

But the generic names still all would have simular names. That is, a find replace all should allow you to in a quicker way with time atleast rename stuff after haveing an educated guess what they do. That is, if you could decompile it, get the source and compile it, adding breakpoints at certain areas could make it possible to figure out a function and thus start the rename process. Still would it be worth the work? probably not.

[magikarcher]

I wasn't really planning on decompiling or hacking it... I just was curious. Besides I am just learning C++, I have some efficiency in Lua as well.