Virtually all compilers -- programs that transform human-readable source code into computer-executable machine code -- are vulnerable to an insidious attack in which an adversary can introduce ...

When a company like Microsoft needs to fix a security flaw in one of its products, the process is normally straightforward: determine where the bug lies, change the program's source code to fix ...

The main purpose of a Java compiler (or a compiler in any programming language) is to translate the high-level Java source code into a machine code file consisting of machine-readable 0s and 1s, and ...

Before running, a compiler converts the complete source code into machine code, creating a standalone executable file. As a result of the conversion being completed beforehand, the built software ...

Such efforts to avoid not ruining the EQNEDT32.EXE binary are time-consuming, and no sane developer would have taken this route if he still had access to the source code.

The Windows XP source code, though, was missing critical files, such as Winlogon.exe, which makes it impossible to install the operating system.

The two-year effort to decompile Super Mario 64 wasn't started with a Windows executable in mind. Instead, it was motivated primarily by speedrunners who wanted "to understand the game's code ...

As for the leaked Windows Server 2003 source, the second major Windows OS version included in last week's leak, NTDEV said this code was also similar to the XP leak.