Re: Hiding Sensitive Code

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From: Fred Taylor (ftaylor_at_mvps.org!REMOVE)
Date: 01/21/05 

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:22:46 -0700

Putting the object code back into C/C++ source code is probably unlikely,
but not decompiling it into an editable source code of some type, more than
likely assembler. The code can certainly be changed from that point. 

-- 
Fred
Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP
"Eugene Vital" <dontwantany@news.com> wrote in message 
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> Rick Bean wrote:
>
>>Note: There are many more tools for decompiling C/C++ code than there are 
>>for VFP code.
>
> I don't think this statement is very accurate since C/C++ in compiled into 
> native machine code there is almost no way of decompiling it.

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