Recover hex file from chip and convert back to c++

Using Arduino Programming Questions
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This will probably never work but i figured i'd ask.
My laptop and flash driver were stolen last night with my program on it. ( hows this for ironic, i built an alarm system for my trailer and they broke into my truck. )
Is there a way to get the hex file off the chip and convert it back to c++? or am i SOL?
i guess i'm not too upset, i have an older copy of the code and the one that was stolen had maybe 200 lines of new code added.

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You can recover the hex (Avrdude), but forget about translating it back to C++.

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Once you use avrdude to get the .hex from the arduino you can use avr-objdump to turn that into Assembler:

avr-objdump -j .sec1 -d -m avr yourdump.hex

Then it's just a matter of re-writing the Assembler into C++.

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Then it's just a matter of re-writing the Assembler into C++.

And, we all know that that is nearly trivial.

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That's what i figured.
Thanks for the fast reply's.
I'll be checking pawn shops and ebay, it should turn up. The program was on a flash drive though, not sure where that will end up.