Gregory's Server> encounter a huge C++ binary built by GCC with RTTI
> complain that binary ninja should have a plugin to decode RTTI info and vtables
> search the plugin list
> it exists
> Author: whitequark
well i'll be damned
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 @whitequark weird cognitive biases, maybe. Maybe because I'm terrible with names all the time, and they have a much much weaker associative weight in my mind, than the actual work and ideas of a person. Fun fact about me: I really, really struggled in math class, because I couldn't make a solid connection between some person's name and e.g. a series they formulated. Like Cauchy series. @whitequark @datenwolf from my observations so far: legacy maintenance of a previous identity, difficulties with scaling (if system has many members), perceived insignificance (especially for median systems) @festla @datenwolf if i wouldn't bother to inscribe the smallest of smalls onto the world, that of my own name, i don't think i would have even bothered to exist? or at least to like... talk or publish anything  @whitequark @datenwolf I have on occasion wondered if I invent time travel and future me goes back in time to do something to help current me, but then I realize future me would have told me to sell all my tech stocks in 1998 so there's that. i should extend the plugin to parse .eh_frame and add exception edges to invoke sites   @whitequark this is the positive case of the old “search the web for obscure technical issue, only hit is me asking the same question 10 years back, and replying with 'nm fixed it’”   @whitequark wow that's pretty good, I once designed an entire computer in 2020 and completely forgot about it. |
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