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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You can see what’s running. But what’s running is binary code. Decompilation is the process of turning that binary code into higher level source code.
It is generally not possible to recover the original source code as information such as variable names is usually lost during the compilation process. But the decompiled source is generally much easier to read than raw machine code.
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