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package com.google.security.zynamics.binnavi.disassembly;

/**
 * This package contains the so called raw data. Raw data is basically the back-end that drives
 * com.google.security.zynamics.binnavi. It is the data everything else relies on.
 * 
 * There are raw data classes for projects, modules, code nodes, instructions, operands, operand
 * tree nodes, and so on. Basically any kind of data that is stored in the database has a
 * corresponding raw data class.
 * 
 * That means that things like the graph shown in the GUI or the objects accessible from the plugin
 * API are simply abstraction layers that operate on this raw data.
 * 
 * Raw data is read from the database using the classes in the Database package. Changes in the raw
 * data are instantly written back to the database.
 * 
 * TODO: The biggest problem of this package is that individual raw data classes easily become very
 * big and difficult to understand. In the future it is a good idea to create sub-packages for
 * individual raw data objects.
 * 
 * I have already started doing this by breaking up the formerly huge {@link CModule} and
 * {@link CAddressSpace} classes into many different classes that are easier to understand
 * individually.
 */