Source from beam files?

[Sean Hinde]

> Jozsef Berces (QCZ) writes:
> 
>  > Is it possible to reconstruct the erlang source from a beam file? 
>  > Is the beam file format documented? Obviously, it must be, 
> so is it public?
> 
> From the FAQ:
> 
> 3.6 [...] The internals of the BEAM file format are described 
> on Björn's
>    homepage 
> (http://www.ericsson.com/cslab/~bjorn/beam_file_format.html). 
> 
> There was some discussion about reconstructing source from .beam files
> on the mailing list a couple of years ago. A bit of searching through
> the online mailing list archive would probably get you some more
> clues. Maybe someone can remember when the discussion was.

If you were using a version of the compiler which set the debug_info option
by default, or you set this when you compiled the file the source code is
included in the beam file.

You can use the beam_lib module to re-extract the abstract code if it is in
there

Sean



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