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\section*{Preface}

There are several popular meanings of the term \q{\gls{reverse engineering}}:
1) The reverse engineering of software: researching compiled programs;
2) The scanning of 3D structures and the subsequent digital manipulation required in order to duplicate them;
3) Recreating \ac{DBMS} structure.
This book is about the first meaning.

\subsection*{Topics discussed in-depth}

x86/x64, ARM/ARM64, MIPS, Java/JVM.

\subsection*{Topics touched upon}

\oracle (\myref{oracle}),
Itanium (\myref{itanium}),
copy-protection dongles (\myref{dongles}), 
LD\_PRELOAD (\myref{ld_preload}),
stack overflow,
\ac{ELF},
win32 PE file format (\myref{win32_pe}),
x86-64 (\myref{x86-64}),
critical sections (\myref{critical_sections}),
syscalls (\myref{syscalls}), 
\ac{TLS},
position-independent code (\ac{PIC}) (\myref{sec:PIC}), 
profile-guided optimization (\myref{PGO}),
C++ STL (\myref{cpp_STL}),
OpenMP (\myref{openmp}),
SEH (\myref{sec:SEH}).

\subsection*{Exercises and tasks}

\dots 
are all moved to the separate website: \url{http://challenges.re}.

\subsection*{About the author}
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Dennis Yurichev is an experienced reverse engineer and programmer.
He can be contacted by email: \textbf{\EMAIL{}}.

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This is the A5-format version for e-book readers.
Although the content is mostly the same, the illustrations are resized and probably not readable.
You may try to change scale in your e-book reader.
Otherwise, you can always view them in the A4-format version here:
\href{http://go.yurichev.com/17009}{beginners.re}.
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\subsection*{About the Korean translation}

In January 2015, the Acorn publishing company (\href{http://www.acornpub.co.kr}{www.acornpub.co.kr}) in South Korea did a huge amount of work in translating and publishing 
my book (as it was in August 2014) into Korean.

It's now available at \href{http://go.yurichev.com/17343}{their website}.

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The translator is Byungho Min (\href{http://go.yurichev.com/17344}{twitter/tais9}).
The cover art was done by my artistic friend, Andy Nechaevsky:
\href{http://go.yurichev.com/17023}{facebook/andydinka}.
They also hold the copyright to the Korean translation.

So, if you want to have a \IT{real} book on your shelf in Korean and 
want to support my work, it is now available for purchase.