• CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Is there not a way to take assembly and automatically translate it to some higher level language?

    Edit: Post-post thought: I guess that would basically be one step removed from decompilation which, as I understand it, is a tedious and still fairly manual process.

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      Your thought is correct. The basic problem is that higher level languages contain a lot of additional information that is lost in the compilation process.