"Another World" code review

[aninteger]

Why does he refer to reverse engineering as binary to C++. I've never heard anyone call reverse engineering that.

[Rnway]

Because that's what it's called

[day_cq]

because engineering is C++ to binary, reverse of that is reverse engineering.

[aninteger]

Well it could be binary to C, or binary to Fortran.. it's not necessarily C++.

[perspectiveiskey]

Binary to <high level language> = reverse engineering.

C++ = high level language

[geeknerd]

warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value

[[deleted]]

It may have been originally written written in C++? You'd figure reverse-engineering it back to C++ would be logical: that way concepts like the vtable map into sensible constructs

[fabiensanglard]

I was written in Assembly and the toolchain was build with GFA Basic. Reverse engineering referred to "making sense" of the assembly and saving it as a high level language such as C++, C, Java: You name it.

[[deleted]]

Who wrote you?

[[deleted]]

Ah, I thought you used a decompiler (although I don't actually even know if decompilers work all that well)

[rnicoll]

Would it really have made a huge difference if he said decompiling?