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Topic: Decompiling a small linux prog
started by: fatbitch

Posted by fatbitch on Feb. 14 2001,01:03

i think this topic may have already been covered, but i forget, so here goes

there is a small quakec compiler called proqcc that i want to decompile, becuase it was built 4 years ago and wont run on new linux systems, it only segfaults. so i want to decompile it, so i can recompile it so it works on a new system. how would i go about this? is this even possible?

btw the program is here if you want to try it out

ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/quake/utils/quakec/proqcc-160-linux.tgz

thanks a bunch for any help or advice

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Posted by fatbitch on Feb. 15 2001,08:27

hello? anyone?

Posted by a.out on Feb. 17 2001,01:05

You probably won't be able to do anything by decompiling it. You'd get some assembly code, and that's it, which is not very helpful for trying to rewrite it. Your best bet would be to try to contact the original programmer (if at all possible) and ask him about it.

EDIT: Or, you could just run an older version of linux

This message has been edited by a.out on February 17, 2001 at 08:08 PM