Re: Looking for disassembler, decompiler, discompiler or whatever.

debray@CS.Arizona.EDU (Saumya K. Debray)
11 Sep 2001 23:15:57 -0400

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From: debray@CS.Arizona.EDU (Saumya K. Debray)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 11 Sep 2001 23:15:57 -0400
Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson AZ
References: 01-09-011 01-09-021 01-09-029
Keywords: disassemble
Posted-Date: 11 Sep 2001 23:15:57 EDT



zyy <zuyihe@163.net> wrote:
> My advisor wants me to modify an executable by inserting several
>instructions (to the text section). You are only given
>executable. Jesus, what can I do? Does it sound a reasonable task?


There has been a fair amount of work on modifying executable files for
various purposes such as instrumentation and optimization. A Google
search on phrases like "binary rewriting", "binary translation", and
"link-time code optimization" should give you enough pointers to get
you started.


>Man, it could be a Ph.D. thesis. Any idea to hack this bullshit?


Well, we had an undergraduate student build, in one summer, a binary
rewriting system for Intel x86 executables under Linux (ELF format)
that would modify the code for instrumentation as well as optimization
purposes. It isn't *that* hard.:)
--
Saumya Debray
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Arizona, Tucson
debray@cs.arizona.edu
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/debray

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