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The comments you pasted in particular are about stuff that makes sense and that someone who wants to fully understand some source code can readily figure out, i
by anyfoo 2y ago
The comments you pasted in particular are about stuff that makes sense and that someone who wants to fully understand some source code can readily figure out, if they put their mind to it.
It's when things don't make sense that it gets interesting, because then you have to guess the original author's intentions, suspect a bug, question your understanding, or deal with other uncertainties. That's usually when a bunch of question marks start to appear in reverse engineering comments (e.g. "increment xyz???")...
- MarkMoxon 2y agoI keep a list of everything that isn’t 100% clear in my commentary, here: https://elite.bbcelite.com/about_site/to-do_list.html https://elite.bbcelite.com/about_site/to-do_list.html This is not a big list, and these are all pretty subtle aspects of the game. After 4 years of analysis, I think we’re pretty close to understanding pretty much everything, which is nice.