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Re:Digging for treasure in Aladdin’s source code by ggambetta on Thursday October 12, 2017 @12:39PM (#15459236)
Oooh, that's super interesting! If it's backed by DOSBox I doubt it's recompiled from source, but I could ask :)
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Re:Digging for treasure in Aladdin’s source code by kbenson on Thursday October 12, 2017 @01:53PM (#15459809)
Theoretically they could be binary patching. By using a disassembler and a debugger to understand what's going on, in many cases bugs might be fixable inline, or by replacing old functions with a redirect to where it's been redefined (if there wasn't sufficient space to fix inline).
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Re:Digging for treasure in Aladdin’s source code by adamkruszewski on Saturday October 14, 2017 @06:50AM (#15471626)
Judging from their job postings they are resorting to binary patching more often than not (so it's not only theoretically).
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