Disassembler

What Does Disassembler Mean?

A disassembler is software that converts machine language instructions into assembly language instructions (also known as reverse engineering). As the term implies, a disassembler performs operations that are the inverse of operations performed by an assembler.

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Techopedia Explains Disassembler

A disassembler is used to translate machine code into a human readable format. Reading disassembled code is more complex than original source code because disassembled code lacks programmer comments and annotations.

A major disassembling issue is differentiating code and data, which are shown in the same way in current machines.

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