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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?"
Yeah, the "most of the source code" part is a bit scary. If they really are talking about reverse engineering from executables they are in for a hell of a time. The state of the art is a project I work on now and then, Boomerang, and it isn't for the faint of heart. I've been hearing for years about people who are working on decompilation tools that are integrated into IDA Pro but I've yet to see it. The time where you can enter a binary, press a button and get back compilable, maintainable source code is still a long long way off. But that's good, friends of mine do commercial decompilation work.
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