Re: DISIT - OPEN SOURCE DISASSEMBLER ENGINE

[Matt Hargett <matt () use net>]

Piotr Bania wrote:
> I made Disit it specially for some of my future projects, because i 
> couldn't find any other suitable engine arround (i needed detailed 
> registers source and destination flags etc. etc.), the only one I liked 
> was Z0MBIE's XDE. Anyway it was surely a quite enjoying work, i bet you 
> will like the thing which will follow the engine (i hope this sound 
> mysteriously :))

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 ;>)

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! :)

Cheers!