Re: [DUG]: Just a thought

[Neven MacEwan]

Paul   So Therefore if you had the source (to extract the Local Var names) could you combine the source and the CIL to get a reasonable port ie   VB.NET to Delphi.NET   Also on this subject why is the Delphi.NET component lib VCL not CLX based?   Neven ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Heinz To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 3:07 PM Subject: RE: [DUG]: Just a thought Neven asked: I just had a thought   If many languages can compile to .NET (CIL). The what is to stop a delphi decompiler which generates source code?   Unlike a dissassembler there is propably enough symbolic info in the CIL to make this reasonably practical Combining the externally visible type information (method names and signatures) with some ILDasm post processing could well give you a reasonable set of pseudo-code in a language of your choice. Locals variables and such like would be 'anonymously' named though.   Interestingly, there are already 3rd party tools to obfuscate java .class files (bytecode) to make this sort of thing more difficult for java decompilers. They munge the byte code in confusing ways and remove  'unnecessary' (i.e. not needed for correct execution) metadata, etc.   TTFN,   Paul.