A(nother) GUI for Boomerang
Quite a while ago I attempted to write a GUI for Boomerang. In fact, I've done this a couple of times. The stalling point has always been: what good is a GUI? Decompilers are supposed to be automatic. You should be able to give a decompiler an executable and trust it to spit out a C file that meets some definition of program equivalence with that executable. So if the decompiler works perfectly, what is there for the user to do? Surely anything they can offer will be more productively applied to the output, and for that they can just use standard source code manipulation tools. Well, there's two problems with this line of thinking. First, there's the sad fact that no decompiler is perfect. In fact, the state of the art is far, far, from adequate, let alone perfect. Secondly, standard source code manipulation tools are woefully underpowered for even the most simplest tasks of traditional reverse engineering (where traditional means "starting from source code...
