Yo, I'm just getting started with decompiling programs. I do have some C and C++ knowledge but have yet to find any decompiler that decompiles exe and dll's into either C or C++, the only ones I've found decode into delphi.

Could anybody direct me as to where I can get some good programs? I don't need the security one's yet.

Thanks, MR. Candyman

I know you said decompiler, but if you mean disassemblers then;

Hambo' site has IDA404
http://www.cracks.tabcrawler.com/~hambo/

Others are here:
http://playtools.cjb.net/

and here:
http://www.suddendischarge.com/

The only decompiler to C I know of is a beta version, quite bugged by the way. Have a look here : http://www.cs.uq.edu.au/groups/csm/dcc.html

Hope that helps.

hmmm theres one called rec... the reverse engeneering compiler or something like that... not sure how good the code it comes up with is but it does support multiple file formats pe,elf,...
and different types of processors i think (dont remember about that for sure)
anyways from what i remember about it i dont think you would be able to recompile the code it produces but ya might be able to learn from it


you might look for the papers written by cristina cifuentes... they talk about the theory behind compilers and code analysis

Christina's excellent papers can be found at

http://tempura.cs.uq.edu.au/personal/cristina/pubs.html