Why must a program be decompiled before viewing its code? If the computer is running the program, shouldn’t we be able to see what it’s running?

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Why must a program be decompiled before viewing its code? If the computer is running the program, shouldn’t we be able to see what it’s running?

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I used to have to analyze memory core dumps of running computers. The dumps were written out to a file in hexadecimal that I had to, at times at certain memory locations, convert to binary. It could take hours to figure out the cause of a system problem.

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