RE: [DUG]: Just a thought

[Paul Heinz]

Neven originally asked: I just had a thought   If many languages can compile to .NET (CIL). The what is to stop a delphi decompiler which generates source code?   Unlike a dissassembler there is propably enough symbolic info in the CIL to make this reasonably practical   Well, someone has already gone and written a MSIL -> C# decompiler doing full parse-tree graph reconstruction and other funky stuff.   Here's a link to an article about it:   http://www.dotnetcoders.com/web/Articles/ShowArticle.aspx?article=40   Here's a link to the actual application called Anakrino (it's greek - look it up :-) :   http://www.saurik.com/net/exemplar/    The sourcecode is available, and it uses XSLT to transform the parse-tree graphs into C# source code so adapting it to output Delphi code might not be _too_ hard.   TTFN,   Paul.