# Human-Readable Decompilation

> Human-Readable Decompilation restructures C produced by Ghidra's binary decompiler using an ANTLR parser and AST transformations. It recovers switches from conditional chains, introduces guard clauses, flattens nested branches and simplifies selected expressions. A GUI can launch Ghidra headlessly before transformation, while a CLI handles existing C output.

- Type: Tool
- Targets: Binary
- Category: Native analysis tools
- Relationship: Foundation tool
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-06
- Original resource: <https://github.com/aaronwb/human-readable-decompilation>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/aaronwb/human-readable-decompilation/blob/1cde62db2e3c941ea1ba6dfea67394124704fc58/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/human-readable-decompilation/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/human-readable-decompilation/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/human-readable-decompilation/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Ghidra 11.4.2 or later, a Java runtime and Python 3 are specified for the full workflow.
- **Prerequisites:** ANTLR Python runtime and tools are needed to generate the parser.
- **Limits:** Further transformation coverage, including iteration statements, remains planned.
- **License:** BSD-3-Clause license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/aaronwb/human-readable-decompilation/blob/1cde62db2e3c941ea1ba6dfea67394124704fc58/README.md>

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