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Decompilation, automate preliminary work? - Yoshimaster96 - 12-28-2016
I know that it'll take a long time, and that it can't be done completely automatically, however...
I'd like to at the VERY LEAST have a tool that'll split it into functions and convert assembly instructions into small statements that can later be optimized by the user.
For example (code from http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~mburrel/stuff/ppc-asm.html):
ASSEMBLY:
bar:
mflr r0 // set up the stack frame
stw r0, 8(r1)
stwu r1, -16(r1)
addi r3, r3, 3 // add 3 to the argument and return it
addi r1, r1, 16 // destroy the stack frame
lwz r0, 8(r1)
mtlr r0
blr // return
.globl _main
_main:
mflr r0 // set up the stack frame
stw r0, 8(r1)
stwu r1, -16(r1)
lis r3, hi16(847318093) // load big number into r3
ori r3, r3, lo16(847318092)
bl bar // call stuff
addi r1, r1, 16 // destroy the stack frame
lwz r0, 8(r1)
mtlr r0
blr // return
C CODE:
#include <stdint.h>
uint32_t regs[32];
uint32_t bar(uint32_t a)
{
//ctors automatically removed
regs[3] = a+3; //addi r3,r3,3
return regs[3]; //modification to r3 detected
//dtors automatically removed
}
main()
{
//ctors automatically removed
regs[3] = (847318093)&0xFFFF0000; //lis r3, hi16(847318093)
regs[3] |= (847318093)>>16; //ori r3, r3, lo16(847318093)
bar(regs[3]); //bl bar
//dtors automatically removed
}
As you can see, I don't have high expectations, but ideally functions should be detected and separated, stack construction and destruction in functions omitted, and everything else has a 1 to 1 correspondence from assembly opcode to C statement. Is there such a tool? Or would I have to make it myself?
RE: Decompilation, automate preliminary work? - DrHouse64 - 01-03-2017
That's interesting, the only thing I can find about this are softs like boomerang, IDA or PPC2C.