ARM disassembler

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Other than the x86 disassembler effort, is there an ARM disassembler effort going on? It seems that there have been commits for weeks with messages like “add so-and-so instruction to ARM.td for disassembly purposes only”…

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Yes, it will hopefully be landing in the next couple weeks, I'm behind in code review for it.

-Chris

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Hello,

I know that I can decompile (and translate to C) a x86 program via IDA and Hex-ray (http://www.hex-rays.com/compare.shtml) but for orthers architectures this program doesn’t exist. So, I would like to know LLVM can convert from assembly language to C. This operation is named transliteration… Do you know if the LLVM can do that via the JIT compiler? Is it possible to generate a C code from any assembly language (cf.http://www.microapl.co.uk/asm2c/) via LLVM?

Thanks in advance,
Mustapha Tachouct

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Mustapha Tachouct wrote:

Hello,

I know that I can decompile (and translate to C) a x86 program via IDA and Hex-ray (http://www.hex-rays.com/compare.shtml) but for orthers architectures this program doesn't exist. So, I would like to know LLVM can convert from assembly language to C. This operation is named transliteration.... Do you know if the LLVM can do that via the JIT compiler? Is it possible to generate a C code from any assembly language (cf.Relogix Assembler-to-C translator) via LLVM?

I believe that there's a version of Qemu that converts machine code to LLVM IR. However, it uses dynamic binary translation; what you are describing sounds like static (or ahead-of-time) binary translation, so I don't think it is what you are looking for.

I don't know of any project that translates machine code to LLVM IR statically. Perhaps others can comment if they know.

-- John T.