[LLVMdev] Disassembly arbitrary machine-code byte arrays

[James Molloy]

Hi Aiden,

The easiest thing I can do is to point you to the source of the "llvm-mc" tool, which does exactly what you ask in its "-disassemble" mode. The code is rather small, so it should be easy to work out.

tools/llvm-mc

Cheers,

James

-----Original Message-----
From: llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu] On Behalf Of Aidan Steele
Sent: 19 December 2011 04:30
To: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: [LLVMdev] Disassembly arbitrary machine-code byte arrays

Hi,

My apologies if this appears to be a very trivial question -- I have
tried to solve this on my own and I am stuck. Any assistance that
could be provided would be immensely appreciated.

What is the absolute bare minimum that I need to do to disassemble an
array of, say, ARM machine code bytes? Or an array of Thumb machine
code bytes? For example, I might have an array of unsigned chars --
how could I go about decoding these into MCInst objects? Does such a
decoding process take place in one fell swoop or do I parse the stream
one instruction at a time? Can I ask it to "decode the next 10 bytes"?
What follows is my (feeble) attempt at getting started. It probably
doesn't help that I am only familiar with C and Objective-C and find
C++ syntax absolutely bewildering.

Kind regards,
Aidan Steele

int main (int argc, const char *argv[])
{
 LLVMInitializeARMTargetInfo();
 LLVMInitializeARMTargetMC();
 LLVMInitializeARMAsmParser();
 LLVMInitializeARMDisassembler();

 const llvm::Target Target;

 llvm::OwningPtr<const llvm::MCSubtargetInfo>
STI(Target.createMCSubtargetInfo("", "", ""));
 llvm::OwningPtr<const llvm::MCDisassembler>
disassembler(Target.createMCDisassembler(*STI));

 llvm::OwningPtr<llvm::MemoryBuffer> Buffer;
 llvm::MemoryBuffer::getFile(llvm::StringRef("/path/to/file.bin"), Buffer);
 llvm::MCInst Inst;
 uint64_t Size = 0;

 disassembler->getInstruction(Inst, Size, *Buffer.take(), 0,
llvm::nulls(), llvm::nulls());

//  llvm::StringRef TheArchString("arm-apple-darwin");
//  std::string normalized = llvm::Triple::normalize(TheArchString);
//
//  llvm::Triple TheTriple;
//  TheTriple.setArch(llvm::Triple::arm);
//  TheTriple.setOS(llvm::Triple::Darwin);
//  TheTriple.setVendor(llvm::Triple::Apple);
//  llvm::Target *TheTarget = NULL;

 return 0;
}
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