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

ĎURFINA Lukáš, KŘOUSTEK Jakub, ZEMEK Petr and KÁBELE Břetislav. Detection and Recovery of Functions and their Arguments in a Retargetable Decompiler. In: 19th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2012). Kingston, Ontario: IEEE Computer Society, 2012, pp. 51-60. ISBN 978-0-7695-4891-3. Available from: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6385101
Czech title
Detekce a obnova funkcí a jejich argumentů v rekonfigurovatelném zpětném překladači
Type
conference paper
Language
english
Authors
Ďurfina Lukáš, Ing. (DIFS FIT BUT)
Křoustek Jakub, Ing. (DIFS FIT BUT)
Zemek Petr, Ing. (DIFS FIT BUT)
Kábele Břetislav, Ing. (FBM BUT)
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Keywords

decompilation, reverse engineering, control-flow analysis, function detection, Lissom

Abstract

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. Experimental results can be found at the end of the paper.

Published
2012
Pages
51-60
Proceedings
19th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2012)
Conference
19th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Kingston, Ontario, CA
ISBN
978-0-7695-4891-3
Publisher
IEEE Computer Society
Place
Kingston, Ontario, CA
DOI
10.1109/WCRE.2012.15
BibTeX 
@INPROCEEDINGS{FITPUB10074,
   author = "Luk\'{a}\v{s} \v{D}urfina and Jakub K\v{r}oustek and Petr Zemek and B\v{r}etislav K\'{a}bele",
   title = "Detection and Recovery of Functions and Their Arguments in a Retargetable Decompiler",
   pages = "51--60",
   booktitle = "19th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2012)",
   year = 2012,
   location = "Kingston, Ontario, CA",
   publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
   ISBN = "978-0-7695-4891-3",
   doi = "10.1109/WCRE.2012.15",
   language = "english",
   url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/10074"
}
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