Re:When users never use the features they asked for
by Someone on Thursday September 30, 2021 @02:55AM
(#28703860)
Textually comparing disassembled code variants can be complicated because the disassembler might/will generate different names for locals.
Because of that, a better approach might be to compare the byte codes of the variants first to find out in what classes the variants differ.
Then treat the different class files as source code until you need to change any of them (so, variant 1 has foo1.class, bar.class, and baz.class, variant 2 has foo.class, bar2.class and baz.class, etc). Don’t immediately try to clean up their code, but ‘just’ try to figure out what they are doing (for many of them, that, hopefully, can be done from function names)
Because of that, a better approach might be to compare the byte codes of the variants first to find out in what classes the variants differ.
Then treat the different class files as source code until you need to change any of them (so, variant 1 has foo1.class, bar.class, and baz.class, variant 2 has foo.class, bar2.class and baz.class, etc). Don’t immediately try to clean up their code, but ‘just’ try to figure out what they are doing (for many of them, that, hopefully, can be done from function names)