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by tptacek 2025 days ago
OT: I thought I had an idea of what it is you do, but now it's clear I don't, and I'd love to hear more about why it is you've evaluated all the mainstream reversing tools. :)
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Reverse engineering is mostly a side interest of mine, but I do have a bad habit of overestimating the complexity of the bugs I encounter and launch into reverse engineering software to figure out why it's not working properly.

I actually work on compilers, so training myself on reverse engineering isn't totally useless, especially since a lot of what I like is about the pattern recognition of more advanced compiler features. And if you're trying to retrofit high-level optimizations in a low-level backend, reverse engineering the high-level structures is exactly what you need.