Help needed: BSTR cache testing

Michael Stefaniuc mstefani at redhat.com
Fri Oct 9 08:01:13 CDT 2009


Roderick Colenbrander wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Markus Stockhausen
> <markus.stockhausen at collogia.de> wrote:
>> Am Freitag, den 09.10.2009, 14:15 +0200 schrieb Paul Vriens:
>>
>>> If that sz99 (or now sz128) came from "looking at internal behaviour",
>>> I'm not sure if that would raise some eyebrows.
>>>
>> As I said "looking at internal behaviour" are debugging messages in the
>> IMalloc routines of ifs.c. Simply something you cannot catch when
>> writing testcases only.
>>
> 
> Blackbox reverse engineering is feeding test input to a function and
> looking at the output. A trace of calls made by the native MS dll
> while looking under Wine isn't blackbox. It is considered about the
> same as looking at disassembled Microsoft code.
> 
> I'm not sure how to proceed from this though.
He probably can still write the test case; I really doubt that Alexandre
will accept a patch to fix the issue. Somebody else would have to do it
based on Markus' description.

bye
	michael



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