Boomerang

•This project is an attempt to develop a real decompiler for machine code programs through the open source community.

•Create a Retargetable Decompiler.

–I.E. one that can decompile different types of machine code files with modest effort, e.g. X86-windows, sparc-solaris, etc.

•The Goal is a General Decompiler.

An attempt has been made to line up equivalent original source, binary, and decompiled source code lines; this is not always possible. Comments in red are not generated by the decompiler; those in black are.

This example shows:

./boomerang -Td test/pentium/sumarray:
./boomerang test/pentium/fibo-O4:
./boomerang test/sparc/fromssa2

A paper published in the 2004 Working Conference on Reverse Engineering(WCRE2004)

“Boomerang: A Native Executable Decompiler”

“Using a Decompiler for Real-World Source Recovery.”