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05/27/05 10:24
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#93969 - Debug Symbols.
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Some compilers save debug information with the code - names of the variables, functions, a lot of data that is not needed with the binary but greatly helps in debugging it - and a smart debugger can generate some pseudo-C-code from it and the binary (pseudo, because it's not 100% the same as the original...)
The trick such a binary is much bigger, sometimes slower, uses up more memory etc, etc, so people generally do it only in test phase - the released binaries are cleaned of the debug symbols and can't be turned back into code. And I don't think any '51 C compiler can generate the debug symbols either.

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how to convert machine code back to c ?            01/01/70 00:00      
   Making sausage            01/01/70 00:00      
      Worse than that.            01/01/70 00:00      
   even worse than that            01/01/70 00:00      
   asm-to-C compiler            01/01/70 00:00      
   Debug Symbols.            01/01/70 00:00      
      AFAIK you are confoosed            01/01/70 00:00      
         Bartosz meant PC-style            01/01/70 00:00      
            Bartosz meant PC-style            01/01/70 00:00      
               the excuse            01/01/70 00:00      

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