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On Apr 15, 2012 12:39 AM, "Rebel Neurofog" <rebelneurofog@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 6:28 AM, tehtmi <tehtmi@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I've written a decompiler for Lua 5.1.  It runs on chunks that have been
> > compiled by luac with debugging information and attempts to print out a
> > valid Lua program that would be compiled into equivalent bytecode.
>
> It would be very interesting to see output for debug-stripped chunk.
> And especially to compare with output from unstripped chunk.

Why?

FWIW, my guess is there are multiple sophisticated Lua bytecode reverse-engineering tools in current use, but that they are not public.