[NTLUG:Discuss] Headsets

[Harshal Vaidya]

Hi Listmates,

I am in a bit of a fix and need some advise. 

I have a thrid party library provided by a company
which i am using in my app. Now i have the debug,
release and optimize, all the versions of this lib. 

The company has now gone bust and hence that app is no
longer supported. I suspect that there is a problem in
that library due to which our program is crashing. 

In a nutshell, the library is trying to open a binary
file and reading some content from it. It is during
this reading that it is crashing. I can say this for
sure since the server side shows an explicit message
such as "Error in reading the event loop type in the
<xyz> configuration file". 

Now this configuration file is in binary so we cant
possibly figure out what its containing.

Second thing i tried is running the program through
gdb since I thought that the library was a debug
version and would be able to provide a clue.  

What other options do I have in debugging this
problem?
I can't contact any person from the company since that
company has gone under now.

Are there any tools available for reverse
engineering?The thing is that if we can establish that
the error is in the supplied library itself we might
be able to scrap that and go for some other vendor.

Any ideas are appreciated.








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Harshal Vaidya.

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