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A compiler has optimization steps. Rather than going straight from human readable C to binary, it compiles to an IR and then uses some heuristics to create binary that is more efficient for the machine to execute.

I feel like you're effectively asking for an optimization step. Decompile to an IR, and then use some heuristics to get back to C that is more efficient for humans to read.

And if a compiler without an optimizer is still a compiler, then a decompiler without an "optimizer" should still be called a decompiler.




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