What language are system libraries written in?

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AlexKarev2015-09-05 22:50:32

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AlexKarev, 2015-09-05 22:50:32

Tell me, are the Win32 system libraries (for example, kernel.dll, ole32.dll, mso.dll) written in a particular language or their family, or not?
I'm interested in the possibility of decompiling some of them. Who has experience, please share in a nutshell - success and the program that they used (for example, IDA pro 6.6 HexRays or so on.).

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Armenian Radio, 2015-09-05
@gbg

They are written in C, possibly with assembler inserts. The source code for their functional counterparts can be found in reactOS or wine.

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Vladimir Martyanov, 2015-09-05
@vilgeforce

Decompiling them to source will not work, but IDA can load PDBs, which can greatly simplify analysis.