2009/5/13 Daniel Santos <[email protected]> > I was recently attempting to isolate the cause of a hang in Lord of the > Rings Online and had it in a debugger. I mentioned this on IRC and was told > that I was "reverse engineering" and any patch I came up with would not be > accepted. I find this rather confusing and would like to better understand > the "dos and don'ts" of wine development. Is this documented anywhere? > > If it matters any, the license agreement says that you may not reverse > engineering it including "decompiling or disassembling" but it does not > specifically mention using a debugger (although viewing disassembly from the > debugger would obviously be covered). My aim was only to attempt to > determine which thread(s) were hanging so I could isolate my logging to > those thread(s) and try to figure out what was going wrong. > > Thanks, > Daniel >
if you are using the debugger in wine that is no problem, and i suppose you are since you are saying you were testing a hang. using the debugger on windows may be a problem (for the assembly as you say).
