[NTLUG:Discuss] Trouble

[George Lass]

Harshal Vaidya wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> =====
> Harshal Vaidya.
> 
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Take a look at strace, it might be able to do what you are
asking.

George


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