馃樃 TL;DR Being lazy, I made a tool to run qcow2 images for my convenience. Feel free to use it if you find useful! 馃摉 The back story If you鈥檝e ever typed qemu-system-x86_64 into your terminal, you know the feeling. A creeping dread. A cold sweat. The QEMU headache. It鈥檚 that special migraine reserved for developers who know they鈥檙e about to spend the next ten minutes deciphering their own shell history to remember that one magic flag for networking. ...
鈻讹笍 Intro : Let Me Be On the previous post we continued our journey with a more complex scenario, using a mix of gdb and valgrind to trace all the function execution inside a given binary. This time, hold on because we鈥檙e cranking up the complexity. We鈥檒l dive deeper into low-level analysis and explore how to use Intel PIN, a powerful dynamic instrumentation framework for manipulating and inspecting executable code at runtime. (Photo by FURQAN KHURSHID) ...
馃挕 The problem Welcome back, it鈥檚 been quite a long time since my last ramblings on the D Programming Language! This post is born from a necessity. An old project of mine, the D Koans, was using an external library to simplify unit testing, which is more or less the core of the whole project. Unfortunately, the library started giving some deprecation warnings when compiled with recent D versions. Since the D Language already has an internal unit testing framework, I thought it would be nice to remove the single dependency and rely only on the standard library. Initially, with some global search/replace, I managed to convert all the tests to unittest blocks. ...
鈻讹笍 Intro On the previous post we started our journey with a very simple scenario, and we used a nice feature of the Go programming language to get a measure of how much % of the target program our test is exercising. This time I am going to experiment a Proof of Concept about how we can obtain a test code coverage metric estimation for a normal binary program, without any recompilation. ...