story, it is that reversing is always about meeting the low-level with the high-
level. If you just keep tracing through registers and bytes, you’ll never really
get anywhere. The secret is to always keep your eye on the big picture that’s
slowly materializing in front of you while you’re reversing. I’ve tried to
demonstrate this process as clearly as possible in this chapter. If you feel as if
you’ve missed some of the steps we took in order to get to this point, fear not.
I highly recommend that you go over this chapter more than once, and per-
haps use a live debugger to step through this code while reading the text.
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