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Subject: Re: detecting clones

Author: Sebastian Leibnitz

Date: 11:56:48 01/28/06

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On January 28, 2006 at 13:44:35, Roman Hartmann wrote:

>On January 28, 2006 at 07:59:03, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>I wonder if there can be some program to detect clones based on the exe files.
>>
>>The program does not have to be 100% correct and even detecting part of the
>>clones is good.
>>
>>I remember that there is already a program that help to detect clones based on
>>source codes and by reverse engineering it should be possible to translate exe
>>files to source code so I think that the natural step is to have a program that
>>detects clones automatically for people like Leo by comparing the sources of the
>>programs that he is using.
>>
>>If there is going to be a program that can detect all the clones that were
>>detected until today and does not have false clone detection by comparing
>>different free source code programs that are not clones then it is going to be
>>good.
>>
>>Uri
>
>Hi Uri,
>I doubt this can be done automatically.
>Looking fo similar PV's of certain positions (including illegal positions) and
>compare evals of different positions is probably the simpler approach. AFAIK
>this is already (sucessfully) done by some people.
>
>Roman


I disagree.

I am fairly certain that I could identify a (e.g.) fruit clone by looking at the
decompiler output of fruit and the clone and identifying *too* similiar looking
procedures.
No more than 2-3 hours should do the job.

Actually, as both Toga and Fruit are open-source, I'll do so and post the
results (to showcase what I mean).
Look out for a post on that topic...
(As exams are coming up, I'll most likely postpone it till wednesday, but it'll
come)


Sebastian



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