[LLVMdev] decompiler

[Per Larsen]

SecondWrite is not open source. My intent was to bring attention to the
scope and difficulty of writing a production quality decompiler and to put
the SecondWrite people in the loop-not to sidetrack the discussion :)



On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 10:53 AM, "C. Bergström" <cbergstrom at pathscale.com>wrote:

> On 04/ 4/14 12:55 AM, Per Larsen wrote:
>
>> For completeness, I want to mention that there is a commercial effort (by
>> SecondWrite LLC) to build a production-quality decompiler (also called
>> SecondWrite [1,2]) that targets the LLVM intermediate representation. It is
>> a very ambitious project and a high level of compatibility can only be
>> offered after substantial implementation and research efforts have been
>> made. I'm adding a SecondWrite developer, Kapil Anand, to the loop in case
>> you want to start a conversation directly. As an independent researcher in
>> compilation and security, I can attest to the quality of the work and
>> research that has gone into the development of SecondWrite.
>>
> Is it open source? Do they plan to work with upstream? Commercial products
> are fun, but my original post was about a project that had pushed the
> source to github. I was hoping to have it get some attention or upstream to
> notice people are interested.
>



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