Testing Reverse Engineering Tools/Framework

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a-foton » Testing Reverse Engineering Tools/Framework — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:13:58 GMT

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re: Testing Reverse Engineering Tools/Framework

Vlad — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:58:19 GMT

It may be obvious, but I think one of the best uses of Phoenix could be a runtime memory checker. Something like Purify was once (there is silence about Purify these days, but couple of years back it was an extremely helpful tool)

or valgrind is for Linux. Ever since I've known about Phoenix, I expected Microsoft to start working work on such a tool - but so far have not heard about any work in progress...

re: Testing Reverse Engineering Tools/Framework

Rolf Rolles — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:06:57 GMT

As geeked out as I am about Phoenix, the need for PDBs with local symbol types would seem to make the project a non-starter for "in-the-wild" reverse engineering projects. I'm told that even the symbols you pull off of the public symbol server won't suffice.

I would be keen to see the differences in both speed and result quality if something like BinHunt, http://flyer.sis.smu.edu.sg/tech08.pdf (which I had nothing to do with), was used instead of the lattice framework.

re: Testing Reverse Engineering Tools/Framework

pingpong — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:08:06 GMT

@Vlad: Purify is sold/supported (however, Rational was bought by IBM).

Visual Studio Links #54

Visual Studio Hacks — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:14:07 GMT

My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio. Sara Ford's Tip of the Day #262 covers toggling breakpoints . Mike Snow has posted a summary of the recent Silverlight Tips of the

re: Testing Reverse Engineering Tools/Framework

Vlad — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:45:44 GMT

@pingpong: I know Purify is sold by IBM. It is just is I do not find Purify as useful anymore.

Their are quite behind in supporting latest Windows and latest compilers - I believe they still have nothing for x64

Code quality focus welcome at MS

Greg — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:53:54 GMT

I'm quite happy to see MS finally focus code quality both at the machine code level as well as at a higher source code level. These tools will greatly improve the reliability, maintainablity and longevity of software. MS initial investment in them will be worth it just in maintaining its own internal code-base.

Static analysis, duplicate code detection, higher level refactoring, code quality checking, etc. are all quite helpful.

Request:

Greg — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:56:27 GMT

Refactoring/reengineering tools to port makefile based unix/linux projects to MSVC++. This is a quite painful process for us since many of the libraries we use (numerical, image processing, scientific, etc) are from a unix background and quite difficult to compile cleanly in MSVC++.

Visual C++ 10 和 MFC 10的新特性

Joycode@Ab110.com — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:51:21 GMT

Boris Jabes 和Damien Watkins将会在 PDC 上演示Visual C++10中的新功能。IDE的新功能包括基于SQL Compact的智能提示、支持自定义插件的新的项目和编译系统