[ros-dev] very confused

[rené Tournois <betov@free.fr> @mailhost.geldorp.nl]

At 15:11 17/02/2006 -0000, you wrote:

I apologize for this second intrusion, but i have some difficulties
to really understand this:

>Define 'MS code'. If we're talking about leaked source code, then that is
>true.

But you said elsewhere that there was _no_ leaked source, so that
the only problem should be with your next words:

>If we're talking about small chunks of assembly from dissasembled MS
>binaries, then that is what the audit hopes to uncover and remove. Once the
>audit is complete, we can also say we know this to be true, at the moment we
>don't know.

... and this one sounds strange to me, because i saw several messages
talking in terms of *year* (?!), for the audit.

Well, i just downloaded the ReactOS Sources, and searched for all the
Files having an "__asm__" Statements inside, after having saved in a
dedicated Directory, the folders: bootdata / Drivers / hal / include /
lin / media / modules / ntoskrnl / regtests / services / subsys and
win32api.

I did not considered the other ones because, for example, i suppose
that there can be no "problem" with the [apps] Folder. ;)

The search of the Files with "_asm_" inside shows only around 80 Files
found. Opening several of these Files, shows that the occurencies of
"_asm_" seem to be from 1 to, say, 10. Most usually around 2 or 3. It
also shows that many of these Statements cannot be any problem. Example:

{
__asm__("int $3\n\t" : /* no outputs */ : /* no inputs */)
}

Some other ones, a little bit more significative look like, for
example:

__asm
{
    mov edx, Port
    mov edi, Buffer
    mov ecx, Count
    cld
    rep ins byte ptr[edi], dx
}

... that do not seem to me big enough for demonstrating anything,
particulary not for a so trivial code... Not considering that most
of the ones i saw, were simple LOCK or INT instructions, and the like,
that do not even diserve a reading.

I did not search inside _all_ files, but i had to search inside many,
(say, 1/3), before i could point out an Asm Routine with more than 10
Instructions...

I stopped there, because i said to me that it was stupid to read that
way, and that i was possibly missing the Files of real interrest for
the Audit. But all i have seen does not explain to me, how it could
ever take one year for proof-reading so few, and so small, "__asm__"
statements.

What am i missing?


Betov.

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