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Re: Tips to analyze a project with thousands of files

From Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c++
Subject Re: Tips to analyze a project with thousands of files
Date 2012-10-24 22:42 +0200
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On 20/10/2012 07:07, Like Learn wrote:
> My task is to analyze a legacy firmware project using Qualcomm MDM9X00
> baseband chip with thousands of files (literally) to fix a bug. There is no
> design documents about the project. The project is qriting in C++, halve of
> them are commented in Doxygen format, while the other halve not. I don't
> have the hardware to run the firmware or debugging. The only thing I have is
> a list of debugging outputs of the printfs in firmware collected by the
> client.
>
> I spent one day today and even couldn't find out where the firmware starts.
> Obviously it was not the main function. The comments are not in pure
> English, frustrated. Any tip to find out the starting line of an ARM
> project?
>
> BTW, any suggestion for debugging tools toward Qualcomm MDM9x00? I believe
> it belongs to ARM family and has multiple-processors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOUML#Code_Generation_and_Reverse_Engineering


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Tips to analyze a project with thousands of files "Like Learn" <like2learn@live.ca> - 2012-10-19 23:07 -0600
  Re: Tips to analyze a project with thousands of files Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-10-20 07:49 +0000
    Re: Tips to analyze a project with thousands of files "Like Learn" <like2learn@live.ca> - 2012-10-21 00:09 -0600
    Re: Tips to analyze a project with thousands of files Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-10-21 11:42 +0000
  Re: Tips to analyze a project with thousands of files Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2012-10-20 09:14 -0700
    Re: Tips to analyze a project with thousands of files "Like Learn" <like2learn@live.ca> - 2012-10-21 00:12 -0600
  Re: Tips to analyze a project with thousands of files ctgqumgf@sharklasers.com - 2012-10-21 01:34 -0700
    Re: Tips to analyze a project with thousands of files Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-10-21 11:55 +0000
    Re: Tips to analyze a project with thousands of files "Like Learn" <like2learn@live.ca> - 2012-10-21 22:39 -0600
  Re: Tips to analyze a project with thousands of files Stuart <DerTopper@web.de> - 2012-10-23 13:00 +0200
  Re: Tips to analyze a project with thousands of files drew@furrfu.invalid (Drew Lawson) - 2012-10-24 15:33 +0000
  Re: Tips to analyze a project with thousands of files Werner <werasm@gmail.com> - 2012-10-24 09:29 -0700
    Re: Tips to analyze a project with thousands of files Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-10-25 20:44 +0000
  Re: Tips to analyze a project with thousands of files Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it> - 2012-10-24 22:42 +0200

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