G. C. Gannod & H. C. Cheng, "Using Informal and Formal Techniques for Reverse Engineering of C Programs," in Proceedings of the Third Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, 8--10th November, IEEE Computer Spciety, Monteray, California, 1996, 249--258. 27 Home/Search Document Details and Download
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.... is, however, still incomplete and calculations are too lengthy see e.g. the algebra and calculations on selective updating presented in [22] 6 Related Work Most work in the literature refers to formal reverse engineering of algorithmic code, in particular resorting to wp calculi, see e.g. [7, 9]. A clever use of type inference techniques to decompile (that is, reverse engineer) C programs from target machine code is described in [17] Type reconstruction is based on Milner s algorithm and includes the process of data structure reconstruction. As happens in our approach, this provides ....
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Gannod, G.C. and Cheng, H.C. (1996). Using Informal and Formal Techniques for Reverse Engineering of C Programs. Proc. of the 3 rd Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Monterey, California, Nov 8-10, pp. 249-258.
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G. C. Gannod & H. C. Cheng, "Using Informal and Formal Techniques for Reverse Engineering of C Programs," in Proceedings of the Third Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, 8--10th November, IEEE Computer Spciety, Monteray, California, 1996, 249--258. 27
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