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Decompiling, as a means of analysing and understanding software, has great practical value. This paper presents a kind of decompiling method offered by the authors, in which the techniques of library-function pattern recognition, intermediate language, symbolic execution, rule-based data type recovery, program transformation, and knowledge engineering are separately applied to different phases of decompiling. Then it is discussed that the techniques of developing expert systems are adopted to build a decompiling system shell independent of the knowledge of language and program running environment. The shell will become a real decompiler, as long as the new knowledge of application environment is interactively acquired.
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Liu, Z., Chen, F. Research on decompiling technology. J. of Comput. Sci. & Technol. 9, 311–319 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02943578
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02943578