Episode April 1, 2025 20 min 49s

Foundations of Linux Debugging, Disassembling, and Reversing: Analyze Binary Code, Understand Stack Memory Usage, and Reconstruct C/C++ Code

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Dmitry Vostokov's Book, Foundations of Linux Debugging, Disassembling, and Reversing, teaches readers to analyze binary code, understand stack memory usage, and reconstruct C/C++ code using Intel x64. The provided text is a detailed excerpt from Chapter 1-8, focusing on fundamental concepts like memory, registers, and simple arithmetic operations. It demonstrates these concepts through a step-by-step "Arithmetic" project, translating pseudo-code and C/C++ into assembly language. The text also explores code optimization and different number representations, particularly hexadecimal. Later chapters (partially shown) expand on pointers, memory layout, and code reconstruction techniques using the GDB debugger.

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