Definition of "disassembler" []

• A computer program that examines another computer program and attempts to generate assembly language source code that would, in theory, reproduce the target program. (noun)

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• "Cliff: I think the singularity crowd will be the first to volunteer to be guinea pigs in a disassembler/assembler gate."
• "Resource gathering is undertaken by a disassembler unit, which trundles around absorbing wreckage, old buildings or some enemy structures and transferring the energy back to the carrier, where it can be used to build new vehicles."
• "And not with a disassembler compiled with gcc, either - as Ken suggested, you can also make the compiler patch the disassembler to make it hide the work done by the compiler patch."