Disassembly of the adobe svg plugin

Mike Hearn m.hearn at signal.qinetiq.com
Mon Dec 9 11:17:16 CST 2002


The UK.

I'm not au fait with the reverse engineering laws here, and I'm not very
good at it anyway, so I'd rather avoid it if possible. But once you've
seemingly exhausted a trace what do you do next? I can't breakpoint on a
call, because the call that would let me get the right part is never
called...

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 17:14, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Mike Hearn wrote:
> 
> >Well, I have about 2 hours now when I can work on trying to get the
> >adobe svg plugin to work in Wine. I have a deadline to meet for Friday
> >that requires the plugin, so if I can't get it working back to Windows
> >it is (it's like a damn magnet).
> >
> >I've already located a mouse bug (problem with my last patch, oops) and
> >fixed it (patch sent), but the lack of render on paint problem still
> >eludes me. Having not got a response to the last email, I'll assume it's
> >OK to try poking about inside the plugin itself to figure out what's
> >going wrong. If anybody has some tips, now would be the time to tell me
> >about them :)
> >
> >I hope this doesn't invalidate any patches I might produce.....
> >  
> >
> IIRC, there are some specific laws allowing rev-eng for interoperability 
> in the EU. Which country are you in?
> 
>             Shachar
> 
> >  
> >
-- 
Mike Hearn <m.hearn at signal.qinetiq.com>
QinetiQ - Malvern Technology Center




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