Hi,
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 21:51 -0400, Vijay Ganesh wrote:
> Dear Evince Developers,
>
> Thanks for writing and maintaining Evince.
>
> I am currently researching and developing a (semi)-automated bug finding
> tool. I
> would like to apply it to Evince. We have applied it to an open source Flash
> movie player called Swfdec. So far we have found 6 interesting bugs, and
> reported some of them back to its authors. We did this with about 1 man-month
> effort.
>
> However, my bug-finding tool has the limitation that it accepts only C
> programs.
> From the Wikipedia entry on Evince, I understand that a small portion of
> Evince
> in written in C++. I was wondering if there exists a purely C version of
> Evince, or if a pure C-version is even possible given its library
> dependencies?
>
> Is there any other pdf viewer (or document viewer) that is written purely in
> the
> C language?
I am not a developer, just an list-observer, so I am afraid I am not
providing answers asked us.
Few points:
1. Could you point us to the mentioned tool?
2. I dunno what kind of bugs is your tool able to find but from my
POV most security problems in the past came from old xpdf code
and now from poppler lib. If you care in this area, probable
focus there.
3. How to get current Evince code is to be found here:
http://live.gnome.org/Evince/GettingEvince
[EMAIL PROTECTED] SPECS]# sloccount /tmp/evince-2.23.4/
<...>
SLOC Directory SLOC-by-Language (Sorted)
21679 backend ansic=19672,cpp=2007
21312 shell ansic=21312
9125 top_dir sh=9125
5861 cut-n-paste ansic=5861
5273 libdocument ansic=5273
520 properties ansic=520
156 thumbnailer ansic=156
53 test python=53
0 data (none)
0 help (none)
0 po (none)
Totals grouped by language (dominant language first):
ansic: 52794 (82.52%)
sh: 9125 (14.26%)
cpp: 2007 (3.14%)
python: 53 (0.08%)
(Generated using David A. Wheeler's 'SLOCCount'.)
4. The best way how to find out you how your tool interacts with
Evince's code, actually, is to try it :).
Good luck.
Michal
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Michal Nowak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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