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Not for the first time, I wish the judge has specialist software knowledge
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 14 2012 @ 03:07 PM EDT
Because most of this gobbledegook is indeed transparent
nonsense with basic subject awareness.

The lawyers are getting away with murdering MY field, and I
want someone to go to prison for it.

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More concisely
Authored by: PJ on Monday, May 14 2012 @ 03:16 PM EDT
They seem to think "running" and "dynamic"
mean you have your phone plugged in and
turned on, instead of realizing that it
has to do with programs on the phone and
when they do what they do and how.

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More concisely. confirmed
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 14 2012 @ 03:23 PM EDT

The dexopt program runs(dynamic) on static data(a java.class file) and
produces an optimized dex file which is some weird version of dalvik bye
code plus native code, more static data which becomes your app.

a user taps the screen the output of dexopt (your app) runs(dynamically) on
the phone

Dexopt runs once (AIUI) when an app is installed (so it can optimise for
platform

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More concisely
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 14 2012 @ 04:16 PM EDT
Well, I *am* professional in software. I just used mechanical engineering
because my impression is that the terms are more rigorously defined there.

MSS2

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More concisely, confirmed again
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 14 2012 @ 04:26 PM EDT

This is correct. In fact, it exactly matches your intuition: "static" means nothing is happening in the part of the system we care about.

In physics, if you're calculating the static forces on an object, it means the object isn't moving. You might well be moving while you do the calculation, but that's not relevant.

Similarly, when you do static analysis of a program, it means the program isn't running. As others have pointed out, if it became dynamic analysis just because the analyzer is running, there would be no such thing as static analysis.

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When an indirect index is not a symbolic reference
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 15 2012 @ 11:30 AM EDT

Let's see if I can make sense..

Load DATA, "value"

Somewhere there is a block of memory, that contains data. that block of memory
has symbol linked to the data.

In this case the symbol is "value"

When the program is run. that data stored in the memory block pointed to by
"value" will be loaded in to DATA.

This is a symbolic link.


LOAD REG1, (1)
LOAD REG2, MEMLOC+REG1

At memory block 1 is an offset/index value, the data stored in memory block 1,
is loaded into REG.

That value is then subsequently used as an offset.

The correct technical term for this is indirect index.

This is not the same thing as a symbolic reference, and for a paid expert to
suggest that it is is to be blatantly mis-leading.

I can sort of see that a symbolic reference could be construed as a type of
indirect index, they are not the same thing and should not be confused.

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