verb

• Produce source code from (compiled code)

  ‘a programmer has to decompile the code’

  More example sentences

  • ‘If you really want to prevent tools like Reflector from decompiling your code, you need the professional version's features.’
  • ‘For example, imagine that a cracker was decompiling your code, looking for authentication text.’
  • ‘The draft's proposals will also hinder music studios, broadcasters and software developers, who risk breaking the law when they decompile copy-protected software.’
  • ‘The answer to providing a modicum of security for interpreted applications has to this point been obfuscation - - making the code look different so it can be difficult to decompile and figure out.’
  • ‘You may not redistribute, sell, decompile, reverse-engineer or otherwise disassemble the Software.’