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Question: Is there a good Mac debug tool like "softice" on PC?
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On pc, "Softice" can load a application to run and can be triggered when some event happen. Some people use this debug tool to crack software.
Anybody knows whether there's a similar tool like it on Mac?
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'gdb' - run it from the terminal command line. 'man gdb' or type 'help' from the prompt. Or search the web, there are about a quadrillion articles on using it.
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Some people have been known to use gdb to crack software on Mac OS X too. I heard a certain Finder replacement can be cracked by altering the return value from a single routine. I also heard that the routine is an Objc method named something obvious like checkSerialNumber or something like that.
You might want to take a look at DDD. It 's a very nice frontend to gdb. You'll need X11 and Motif.
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Before anyone starts flaming, please realize that I meant no harm to the author of said Finder replacement. If I did, I might have also heard about someone writing a patch to exploit such poor protection. I was merely trying to hilight a few things that he did wrong.
1) Only had one check.
2) Made that check so obvious a novice could find it.
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Do you know any other debug tools working on MacOS9?
I'm still running on iMac G3 233, that would be a pain for me to work on OSX. 
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Originally posted by maccn:
Do you know any other debug tools working on MacOS9?
I'm still running on iMac G3 233, that would be a pain for me to work on OSX.
Macsbugs, ahhhh yeah...
Search Apple's developer site for a download link and more info. And, for hardcore "OS X using" Macsbugs junkies, search Apple's dev site for ways to make GDB mimic Macsbugs.
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