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Can you email me contact info?

Mark Wright
mpwright at speedfactroy.net


On May 23, 2005, at 11:27 AM, Christopher Fowler wrote:

> Good point.  If you do not have the C source then your SOL.  I do have 
> a
> guy that works for me that can work for you to solve this problem.
>
> On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 11:14, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>> Good Luck, that is quite a project.
>>
>> 2 things:
>>
>> 1) If this were Linux code, you could run strace on the code and see
>> all the kernel API calls,  that would pretty much give you the info
>> you are interested in.  Unfortunately, you don't seem to be talking
>> about Linux code here, so I have no ideas.
>>
>> 2) You said you decompiled 2 files.  Decompiled is going to have a
>> specific meaning to a programmer and to the best of my knowledge,
>> there are no tools for decompiling C code.  I have to a assume you
>> meant you reverse engineered a  couple of config files.
>>
>> If you truly meant you decompiled a couple of executable or library
>> files, I'd be interested to know how to do that efficiently.  (I did
>> it once over 20 years ago by dis-assembilng a bunch of .o files into
>> assembly code, then guessing at the original C code, then compiling,
>> comparing, modifying C code, recombiling, recomparing.  It took a long
>> (and tedious) time to manually reverse compile just a couple of .o
>> files.)
>>
>> Greg
>>
>> On 5/22/05, Mark Wright <mpwright at speedfactory.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Folks,
>>>
>>> I don't really know where to start.  The background to my dilemma is
>>> important but has little to do with the problem.  Suffice it to say
>>> that I am not a coder or very experienced writing scripts but I have 
>>> a
>>> disk image that boots a control device that I need to reverse 
>>> engineer.
>>>
>>> The ultimate end would be to replace the code with our own but for 
>>> now
>>> just getting diag info from it and understanding it would a great 
>>> step
>>> forward.
>>>
>>> I have copied the disk to my Powerbooks hard drive and decompiled two
>>> files  that looked important.  Anybody on the list read c well enough
>>> to read these and tell me what I should do next?  As I said above I
>>> need to understand how it logs events and decode its error reporting.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>>> P.S    a little of the background.
>>>
>>> The short story is I work for a very small company.  We have a guy 
>>> who
>>> can probably do this but I know he will never have the time.  The
>>> future of my job may hinge on  knowing the secrets of this device.
>>> Like others have commented on their own jobs, I have tons of spare
>>> time.  I can't sit by and watch my reason for having a job slip away.
>>> I need to become a uber coder in a hurry or find enough help to get
>>> past this to the next issue down the road.
>>>
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