Re: Capstone disassembly framework: looking for Beta-testers

[Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh () gmail com>]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh () gmail com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Albert López <newbiesworld () hotmail com>wrote:
>
> > Mmmm, I haven't played a lot with Radare, but I think that it already has
> > all (or almost all) your "unique features" ;)
> >
> > http://radare.org/ <http://radare.org/y/>
> >
> > Moreover, they have a great documentation:
> > http://radare.org/y/?p=documentation
> >
> > Just in case you don't know the tool :)
> cool, your observation is really interesting! yes, i am well aware of
> Radare, which is an excellent tool in my opinion. however, with all due
> respect, there are some differences that i want to elaborate here:
>
> - first of all, Radare is not really a "lightweight" disasm framework. in
> fact it is more like a tool set that includes a lot of small libs and tools
> inside. you can do, but i think it is not very trivial to use Radare as
> disasm framework, which is not its main task.
>
> - on supporting hardware architectures (X86 + ARM + ARM-64 + Mips): Radare
> relies on a bunch of disasm engines, but most of them are really outdated,
> with no support for newer instructions & CPU extensions. that is true on
> all above archs, with no exception i guess. on the other hand, we believe
> Capstone has better support for these archs. (of course Radare works for a
> lot other archs, but that is not what we focus on so far)
>
> - on decomposition functionality, as said above, Radare doesn't seem to do
> that itself, but relies on other frameworks (correct me if i am wrong
> here). and even Radare can do that, i doubt that it supports all above
> archs.
>
> - on instruction semantics, i am not sure if Radare give us the list of
> implicit registers read/written for disasm instructions, or if it can do
> that for all above archs. somebody can enlighten me here, if i am wrong.
>
> - on API, i am quite confident that Capstone API is as
> simple/clean/lightweight/intuitive as anything else, or even more. this is
> the key when we designed the API. lets see if this is true when the
> framework is released - soon after testing phase.
>
> - on bindings: i am not sure if Radare has a list of bindings like
> Capstone, which includes Python, Ruby, Ocaml, Java, C# & Go. and these
> bindings are all manually written to be lightweight and efficient, as we
> dont like bloated SWIG.

well, just found from the doc that Radare has a lot more bindings. thanks
to SWIG, i guess?

still i am not sure if the bindings can be used for disasm purpose,
however. soon enough, somebody will come here to enlighten me, i guess :-)

cheers,
Q

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