[LLVMdev] LLVM based interactive disassembler

[Roel Jordans]

Cool project!

One feature that I've been missing in such tools is the ability to store 
your annotations as debug information.  I think that having something 
like that would be a really useful feature when combining this kind of 
static analysis with analyzing the code in a debugger.

I guess that this won't be on your priority list soon but maybe its an 
idea that you could add to a list somewhere.

Cheers,
  Roel

On 02/06/15 12:33, Christoph Egger wrote:
> Hi folks!
>
>    I've been working for some time on an interactive disassembler[2]
> using libLLVM for Parsing Binaries/Instructions. The whole thing started
> as a Proof-of-Concept and morphed to a university project of mine. It
> will now continue to exist as a Free Software[0] project. It currently
> runs by the name ``FrIDa'' [1] and yes it could use a better name (one
> that isn't used by like 4 other software projects for a start).
>
>    So far I have been a mostly happy user of LLVM and want to say hi and
> thanks to you all! LLVM already allows me to mostly work with binaries
>  From all LLVM targets and I'm looking forward to integrate lldb and
> probably libclang for data-mining header files.
>
>    My primary wish from the LLVM side right now would be some way / idea
> on how to cleanly plug into the InstructionPrinter -- I would like to
> write a generic printer for Operands -- use the specialized Printer and
> annotate the results (wrap it into HTML).
>
> Thanks for listening
>
>    Christoph Egger
>
> [0] Currently GPLv3+
> [1] https://www.frida.xyz/
> [2] An Interactive Disassembler is a tool to better understand how some
>      binary program works. Instead of the long instruction listing you
>      get by running objdump, FrIDa provides you with a control flow graph
>      and lets you annotate parts of the program you already understood.
>      It lets you add names to things (like functions) to actually
>      describe their function -- even if the binary has been stripped and
>      the original names are gone.
>
>
>
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