Hey Guys,
I have a side project I’ve been poking at for which I could really use a good, free or cheap C code decompiler. DCC unfortunately doesnt seem to know the current exe format on Windows.
Any of you guys have good suggestions for a C reverse-engineering tool that isn’t very very expensive?
I do know of something… I got a free trial for research purposes (trying to show relative risk of .class files vs. .exe in terms of protecting IP).
I’ll look it up… sec…
Check out IDA http://www.datarescue.com/idabase/
It actually doesn’t decompile… it is more of an advanced disassembler… but it is quite good.
Haven’t tried it myself, but someone mentioned REC to me some time ago.
http://www.backerstreet.com/rec/rec.htm
Tried REC. Unimpressed with the results.
basically its a disaambler that reciognizes control structures (for loops, etc) and thats about it.
dcc does a much better job. I may try it with the Linux version of the code Im reverse engineering. Boomerang looks like its going to be great but its in pre-alpha at the moment.