Re: DISIT - OPEN SOURCE DISASSEMBLER ENGINE

[Piotr Bania <bania.piotr () gmail com>]

>I ended up doing the same thing with BugScan 2.0 after looking at what
>was available. Most of the libraries seemed good at going one way to
>disassembly, but not extensible enough to support some of the other
>primitives we needed. (We were also a little scared of the code quality
>and lack of automated tests in a number of them ;>)

Yes, that was one of the reasons.

>Writing our own disassembler/interpreter for SPARC, MIPS, x86, Java, 
>and .NET was one of the best things we did on that project. It was 
>major work, don't get me wrong, but it allowed us to move faster and 
>without impediment of third parties. We also learned much more about 
>the underlying architectures that helped us generalize the whole
>architecture more than if we had broken down and reused one of the
>aforementioned libraries.
>Kudos, I hope your library gives you the same benefits! :)

Well it surely blows up the brain power level, that's the main benefit 
:) moreover you are sure stuff you are attaching to your project will 
suit your needs. Then you can move forward - the doors are open.


cheers,
pb

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