Is there any way to decompile Linux .so?

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Rella picture Rella · Feb 21, 2010 · Viewed 55.6k times · Source

Is there any way to decompile Linux .so?

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jschmier picture jschmier · Feb 21, 2010

There are decompilers, but a decompiler might not emit code in the same language that the original program was written in.

There are also disassemblers, which will reassemble the machine code into assembly.

The Decompilation Wiki may be a good source of additional information.

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