Publication detail

Detection and Recovery of Functions and their Arguments in a Retargetable Decompiler

ĎURFINA, L. KŘOUSTEK, J. ZEMEK, P. KÁBELE, B.

Original Title

Detection and Recovery of Functions and their Arguments in a Retargetable Decompiler

Type

article in a collection out of WoS and Scopus

Language

English

Original Abstract

Detection and recovery of high-level control structures, such as functions and their arguments, plays an important role in decompilation. It has a direct impact on the quality of the generated code because it is needed for generating functionally equivalent and highly readable code. In this paper, we present an innovative, platform-independent method of detection and recovery of functions and their arguments. This method is based on static code interpretation and iterative bidirectional search over reconstructed basic blocks. This approach has been adopted and tested in an existing retargetable decompiler. Experimental results can be found at the end of the paper.

Keywords

decompilation, reverse engineering, control-flow analysis, function detection, Lissom

Authors

ĎURFINA, L.; KŘOUSTEK, J.; ZEMEK, P.; KÁBELE, B.

RIV year

2012

Released

15. 10. 2012

Publisher

IEEE Computer Society

Location

Kingston, Ontario

ISBN

978-0-7695-4891-3

Book

19th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2012)

Pages from

51

Pages to

60

Pages count

532

URL

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6385101

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT97003,
  author="Lukáš {Ďurfina} and Jakub {Křoustek} and Petr {Zemek} and Břetislav {Kábele}",
  title="Detection and Recovery of Functions and their Arguments in a Retargetable Decompiler",
  booktitle="19th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2012)",
  year="2012",
  pages="51--60",
  publisher="IEEE Computer Society",
  address="Kingston, Ontario",
  doi="10.1109/WCRE.2012.15",
  isbn="978-0-7695-4891-3",
  url="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6385101"
}