Re: [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