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[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

They have their uses. For instance the other day I needed to read some assembly and decompiled C, you know how fun that can be. LLM proved quite good at translating it to english. And really speed up the process.

Writing it back wasn't that good though, just good enough to point in a direction but I still ended up writing the patcher mostly by myself.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

the other day I needed to read some assembly and decompiled C

As one casually does lol Jokes aside, that's pretty cool. I wish I had the technical know-how and, most importantly, the patience for it.

[–] mormund@feddit.org 8 points 3 weeks ago

If you're interested in getting into it, download Ghidra and open an older program/game in it that you like. The decompiler is pretty amazing imo, so you rarely have to look at the assembly. But it also cross-references them so you can look at the decompiled C Code and the associated assembly. It's pretty fun 😊

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