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Mention reverse-engineering tools for analyzing generated x86 assembly #123

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arsdragonfly opened this issue Jan 23, 2022 · 1 comment

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@arsdragonfly
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arsdragonfly commented Jan 23, 2022

Reverse-engineering tools like cutter/iaito are perfect for analyzing/debugging x86 code, with powerful features like trace sessions that allows debugging both forwards and backwards.
Readers/students/TAs will be greatly empowered by such tools and have a much easier time debugging compiler output compared to dealing with GDB directly.
An example of tracing, continuing to a breakpoint, then stepping backwards:
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May be it would be better to have an optional dump of the test program at every stage, after every pass?

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