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TheHeadFL · 06-17-2006, 05:21 AM

The source code generated by a program like dcc will have almost no similarity to the original code. Most code is so highly optimized by the compiler that even a debugger will report incorrect line numbers, etc. In other words it bears almost no resemblance.

He didn't specify .NET. People are still making C++ executables that do not use .NET, this isn't something that is "mid to late 90s". In fact, I would wager a guess that the majority of developers who are using C++ are NOT using .NET.

What do you consider "not that hard"? Anything with a GUI is likely to have high-level calls that generate hundreds to thousands of assembly language statements and you won't have the benefit of any symbolic information.

06-17-2006, 05:21 AM	#7 (permalink)
TheHeadFL Ultra Techie Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 530	The source code generated by a program like dcc will have almost no similarity to the original code. Most code is so highly optimized by the compiler that even a debugger will report incorrect line numbers, etc. In other words it bears almost no resemblance. He didn't specify .NET. People are still making C++ executables that do not use .NET, this isn't something that is "mid to late 90s". In fact, I would wager a guess that the majority of developers who are using C++ are NOT using .NET. What do you consider "not that hard"? Anything with a GUI is likely to have high-level calls that generate hundreds to thousands of assembly language statements and you won't have the benefit of any symbolic information. __________________ Desktop machine: 2 x Opteron 246, Asus K8N-DL, 2GB PC3200 ECC Reg., XFX GeForce 6600GT, 74gb WD Raptor, 2 x 19\" LCDs, Windows XP x64 Server machine: Intel P4 3.0GHz 2MB EM64T, ECS i865pe, 1GB PC3200, 36gb WD Raptor, Windows Server 2003 Laptop: Dell Inspiron 9100 (Intel P4 3.2GHz 1MB Prescott, i865pe, 512MB PC3200, Mobility Radeon 9700, DVD+R/DL Burner), Windows XP Linux: P3 450Mhz, 386MB ram, Slackware 10.1 (Running mySQL/Apache)