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Subject: Re: detecting clones

Author: Sebastian Leibnitz

Date: 12:07:22 01/28/06

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On January 28, 2006 at 15:00:25, Roman Hartmann wrote:

>On January 28, 2006 at 14:56:48, Sebastian Leibnitz wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>Did you note the word 'automatically'? I believe that you are able to identify a
>clone by looking at the decompiled code but I doubt that a program can do this
>easily.
>
>Roman


Uuups, sorry, I missed the point then.
I agree then, its too complex for a program to decide whether its a clone or
not.

Still, I think decompiling is the way to detect clones, not guessing over PVs
and evals...


Greetings...



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