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by tom_mellior 1898 days ago
> Calling it "decompilation" is misleading. That term implies that you can get your compiled binary and turn it back into C++. No automated tool exists that allows you to do that

The article shows snippets of decompiled C++ code. No, nobody is claiming that it is the "original" code. But it is C++ code derived from the compiled binary. Decompilation.

> Instead what we actually do is 'disassembly'.

Additionally what we do is disassembly.