Detail publikace

On Decompilation of VLIW Executable Files

KŘOUSTEK, J.

Originální název

On Decompilation of VLIW Executable Files

Typ

článek v časopise - ostatní, Jost

Jazyk

angličtina

Originální abstrakt

Machine-code decompilation (i.e. reverse program compilation) is a process often used in reverse engineering. Its task is to transform a platform-specific executable file into a high-level language representation, which is usually the C language. In present, we can find several such tools that support different target architectures (e.g. Intel x86, MIPS, ARM). These architectures can be classified either as RISC (reduced instruction set computing) or CISC (complex instruction set computing). However, none of the existing decompilers support another major architecture type - VLIW (very long instruction word). In this paper, we briefly describe the VLIW architecture together with its unique features and we present several novel approaches how to handle these VLIW-specific features in the decompilation process. We focus on handling of instruction lengths, instruction bundling, and data hazards.

Klíčová slova

reverse engineering, decompilation, VLIW, Lissom

Autoři

KŘOUSTEK, J.

Rok RIV

2015

Vydáno

7. 4. 2015

ISSN

1727-4907

Periodikum

Scientific Journal Problems in Programming

Ročník

16

Číslo

1

Stát

Ukrajina

Strany od

29

Strany do

37

Strany počet

9

URL

http://archive.nbuv.gov.ua/portal/natural/progr/iss/jabout.html

BibTex

@article{BUT119784,
  author="Jakub {Křoustek}",
  title="On Decompilation of VLIW Executable Files",
  journal="Scientific Journal Problems in Programming",
  year="2015",
  volume="16",
  number="1",
  pages="29--37",
  issn="1727-4907",
  url="http://archive.nbuv.gov.ua/portal/natural/progr/iss/jabout.html"
}