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Its not wrong though (lemmy.world)
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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Never heard of a decompiler I see.

[–] tastysnacks@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Try converting from English to Japanese and back to English.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

xor ax, ax

[–] amki@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A fancy way to say do nothing is not the same as translating back and forth. Example: Show me the intermediate translation.

Also we live in a 64bit world now old man

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A decompiler won't give you the source code. Just some code that might not even necessarily work when compiled back.

[–] amki@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

From the point of view of the decompiler machine code is indeed the source code though