Reverse Engineering Apple's OS X
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 17th Mar 2009 20:53 UTC
Mac OS X "A number of folks have asked me what tools and techniques I use to reverse engineer Cocoa executables. I thought it would be worth taking some time out from documenting undocumented APIs to show you how easy it is to do the same thing for yourself. [...] With all these tools in your arsenal, reverse engineering Cocoa executables is actually very simple. In fact, it's a good deal more straightforward than most Windows executables, with the exception of Delphi and .NET where - like Cocoa - a good deal of runtime type information is contained within the executable."
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Great, just great
by kaiwai on Wed 18th Mar 2009 01:34 UTC
kaiwai
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2005-07-06

Another would be hacker thinking he is boy wonder by finding out some private API calls whilst ignoring the havoc that it releases on the user when an update is provided to Mac OS X and compatibility is broken.

Then again, cue the conspiracy theory nuts who think that there are secret API's which operating system vendor hold back from third party developers simply because they are evil.

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RE: Great, just great
by evangs on Wed 18th Mar 2009 07:15 UTC in reply to "Great, just great"
evangs Member since:
2005-07-07

How dare they make parts of their classes private! What up with that right? Why can't their classes be friends with everyone? Spread the love, yo.

Hare Krishna.

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Borrowing from Nygard
by tyrione on Wed 18th Mar 2009 04:48 UTC
tyrione
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2005-11-21

Steve Nygard's a great guy. I enjoyed working with him immensely.

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Great Article
by dwilz on Wed 18th Mar 2009 12:43 UTC
dwilz
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2006-02-27

Thanks for the great article.

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JCooper
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2005-07-06

http://www.fscript.org

Looks intuitive and useful - if anyone was interested and hadn't read the comments on the article (specifically Paul Langlais' comment).

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tyrione Member since:
2005-11-21

http://www.fscript.org

Looks intuitive and useful - if anyone was interested and hadn't read the comments on the article (specifically Paul Langlais' comment).


It's been around for 8 years practically.

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Darkmage Member since:
2006-10-20

uh if you were to figure out all the undocumented class apis in osx you could make gnustep 100% source compatible with osx. You could also combine gnustep with a binary loader and make it into a wine style project for loading mac osx binaries.

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CoreUI actually written in C++
by adkilla on Fri 20th Mar 2009 08:25 UTC
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2005-07-07

Despite all the Objective-C propaganda it was interesting to note (according to the article) that CoreUI was actually written in C++.

Does anyone know of any other Cocoa framework bundled in MacOS X that is written in C++?

-Ad

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