Reverse Engineering Large Software Projects?

stalebread queries: "Me and a team of other students have been tasked with reverse engineering a massive C/C++ (mostly C) computer game of about half a million lines. We have most of the source, but no clue of how to approach a task of this magnitude. Anyone have suggestions of programs, or techniques we could use to understand the structure of the game?"

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Reverse Engineer or Refactor/Port?

[linuxtelephony]

It sounds like you are wanting to refactor the code, or port it to another platform. If you are missing some of the code, then you'll have to reverse engineer that portion of it.

As for how to approach it - I think it depends on the size of your team, and what goals you set for the effort. Are you just wanting to learn? Or do you want to improve performance? Or make it work on another platform? What are the goals for this project?

Once you know those details, they might give you an idea where to begin.