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@typhlosion honestly it's no harder to learn x86 asm than C++ - when I teach non coders they get it way faster
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@typhlosion hahaha it's a bit of both ;) for reals tho; if you can't read the asm, how you gonna debug it??
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@Fuego you mean, how are you gonna debug the c/c++/whatever program you just wrote? do you not have a version of gdb that lets you step through line by line??
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@typhlosion sure but that's almost useless for many complex data corruption bugs. Also double useless when you get crash dumps from customers from release builds.
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@typhlosion I used to get called over by the snort devs to debug their crashes like once a week when I worked at Sourcefire because they couldn't read their own compiled code
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@Fuego that's less a good reflection on x86 asm and more a sobering realization about C++