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Re: Axe dissasembler
« Reply #30 on: November 09, 2013, 09:07:53 am »
Also, even if the "disassembler" part was right, what does it have to do with Axe ?
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Re: Axe dissasembler
« Reply #31 on: November 09, 2013, 09:19:37 am »
So all this does is convert an existing prog to its hex? Because i thought decompiling was a bit more ???
And it is, in general! So, do not despair. ;)
That, i would call simply an object code dumper. A disassembler converts binary to assembly mnemonics (a bit more useful).
A decompiler 'tries' to retrieve the source statements of an higher-level language such as 'C', by inspecting and converting the binary.


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Re: Axe dissasembler
« Reply #32 on: November 09, 2013, 11:49:49 am »
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I wrote a 500-bytes equivalent in Axe a while ago that doesn't need any of your restrictions. It's called PROG2HEX, and what it does is simply getting a name from an input and unsquishing it in a program which has the same name starting with theta.
I've used prog2hex a couple times and I like it a lot.

But I don't like the idea of an Axe decompiler because, even though I usually include the source with my projects (sadly not with CMDv2, it got deleted after I compiled the app and the backup was too outdated to rewrite), there are some times that I don't want to release my entire source.
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Re: Axe dissasembler
« Reply #33 on: April 07, 2014, 08:17:29 am »
I understand you, but what if for example just runner112 has the decompiler so you can send him the asm programm(cmdv2) and he gives you the decompiled source(for easier rewrite)?
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Re: Axe dissasembler
« Reply #34 on: April 07, 2014, 10:36:52 am »
Writing a decompiler would be a lot of work.  There is already a lack of motivation for many comunity projects as it is.  The problem is that the decompiler would have to have a version for (most) every version of axe.  Doing it would be a nightmare.  Not to mention it would probrably be harder to decompile the axe programs than it would to originally assemble them.  As nice as it might be, there will probably never be a axe program to axe source decompiler.  :(

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Re: Axe dissasembler
« Reply #35 on: April 07, 2014, 10:54:15 am »
I understand you, but what if for example just runner112 has the decompiler so you can send him the asm programm(cmdv2) and he gives you the decompiled source(for easier rewrite)?

This has pretty much already been answered in the thread by the man that made Axe himself:
An Axe disassembler is nearly impossible for the following reasons:

-You lose the names of Pointers, Labels, and Variables
-You lose comments and code formatting
-You can't tell if specific data was a string, or number list, or sprite, or picture, etc.
-Each new version of axe changes the routines used so the disassembler would have to be rewritten each version
-Peephole opts make it even more difficult to disassemble.
-Axioms, inline assembly, and other things like that would not translate

It is however, fairly trivial to disassemble it to assembly, and then map native Axe routines and variable locations to the assembly program.  But you would definitely not be able to turn it back into Axe language unless you do it by hand or something.


You should try to read through the thread first to see if your question has already been answered. In this case, it has been.

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Re: Axe dissasembler
« Reply #36 on: April 07, 2014, 12:34:22 pm »
I understand you, but what if for example just runner112 has the decompiler so you can send him the asm programm(cmdv2) and he gives you the decompiled source(for easier rewrite)?

As others have said, decompiling arbitrary Axe programs is nigh impossible. But I can decompile (probably) any Axe program by hand. Give me a program and a good reason (ex. you lost the source to a project you put a lot of work into but still have a recent compiled version, not that someone else published a closed-source program and you want the source), and if I can allocate the time, I'll do it for you. There may be a few others who can do this as well, although I probably shouldn't be volunteering others.

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Re: Axe dissasembler
« Reply #37 on: April 08, 2014, 07:11:32 am »
You should try to read through the thread first to see if your question has already been answered. In this case, it has been.
 

I have red the thread

@Runner112: nice from you  ;D
« Last Edit: April 08, 2014, 09:12:54 am by TheTI-Freak »
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Re: Axe dissasembler
« Reply #38 on: April 08, 2014, 07:31:12 am »
@Streetwalrus: Oooops, you are right.
« Last Edit: April 08, 2014, 09:14:26 am by TheTI-Freak »
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Re: Axe dissasembler
« Reply #39 on: April 08, 2014, 08:33:24 am »
Please don't double post, you have an Edit button. ;)

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Re: Axe dissasembler
« Reply #40 on: April 08, 2014, 03:31:16 pm »
If I took a Supersonic Ball executable then tried to decompile it back into Axe code using such disassembler, I bet that the resulting Axe source would be far different than the original.