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From my limited experience, it refers to the act of reverse engendering the function (signatures) contained the code of a binary.

A binary, like the underlying code, has commonly used code split into functions that may get called in multiple places. These calls can be analyzed either through static analyzers or by a human, who may analyze context of the callsite to guess what each Arg is supposed to do/be.

For modding, e. G. in a single player game, one might want to find out where the engine adjusts the health points of a player or updates progress.






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