Reverse engineering tools in the reporting and analysis of the Year 2000 date problem

1999 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM 1999). Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.99CH36368) Pub Date : 1999-08-22 DOI:10.1109/PACRIM.1999.799554

J. Dahmer, R. Foley

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With the Year 2000 approaching, there is a massive amount of code review and modification going on within industry. One aspect of this millennium problem is computer systems that have used a two digit rendering of the year when interpreting dates. Since the Year 2000 is a fixed deadline that cannot be moved, time is of the essence for businesses in determining if their software has any date logic within them that is incorrect. This means that any utilities that can be implemented to reduce the amount of time software maintainers spend on comprehension and modification of programs would be of benefit. Since reverse engineering techniques can be used to identify components and interrelationships within software, as well as build up high level abstractions from low level code details, it is possible to determine through practical example whether reverse engineering tools and techniques could serve a role in identifying computer software date code problems for the Year 2000.

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逆向工程工具在报告和分析2000年日期问题

随着2000年的临近，业界正在进行大量的代码审查和修改。这个千年问题的一个方面是计算机系统在解释日期时使用两位数表示年份。由于2000年是一个不可更改的固定期限，因此对于企业来说，在确定其软件中是否存在不正确的日期逻辑时，时间是至关重要的。这意味着任何能够减少软件维护者花在理解和修改程序上的时间的实用程序都是有益的。由于逆向工程技术可用于识别软件内的组件和相互关系，以及从低级代码细节建立高级抽象，因此有可能通过实际例子确定逆向工程工具和技术是否可在识别2000年计算机软件日期代码问题方面发挥作用。

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1999 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM 1999). Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.99CH36368)

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