Re: source code of a java app?

[Pete Ryland <pdr@pdr.cx>]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 06:36:13PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > I say simple, but then, I didn't write the decompiler. :)

I did. :-)  (http://pdr.cx/projects/hbd/)

And yes it is quite simple since essentially a 0-address (stack-based)
virtual machine is more-or-less equivalent to an RPN interpreter which is
easy to translate back to infix.

> Note that, IIRC, the Java .class format doesn't store the names of local
> variables in methods, so you lose a good deal of intelligibility during
> the decompilation process.

They actually /can/ be, given the right compiler flags, but obviously the
JVM doesn't care either way.  It's useful to have them when debugging
though.

Pete
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