Accurate Recovery of Functions in a Retargetable Decompiler(Poster Abstract)

Ďurfina, Lukáš; Křoustek, Jakub; Zemek, Petr; Kábele, Břetislav

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-33338-5_27

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“…We describe it in each phase of the decompilation process. A preliminary idea of function detection was very briefly presented in a short abstract published in [28]. For reasons of clarity, this abstract does not contain any details of the following concept, its implementation, or evaluation.…”

Section: Function Detection In the Retargetable Decompilermentioning

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

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Křoustek

et al. 2012

2012 19th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering

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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. According to our experimental results, the proposed retargetable solution is fully competitive with existing hand-coded decompilers.

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Section: Function Detection In the Retargetable Decompilermentioning

confidence: 99%