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Features

  • #1390 adds the flattening pass to the library interface
  • #1389 adds insn-code to the Theory.Semantics clas
  • #1394 adds the Bitvec.modular function
  • #1395 adds LLVM 13/14 compatibility
  • #1408 adds support for mips64el target
  • #1409 adds the --print-missing option to print unlifed instructions
  • #1410 adds several new Primus Lisp primitives and new instructions
  • #1428 adds the monad choice interface to the knowledge base
  • #1429 refines the Theory.Target.matches and adds the matching function
  • #1434 adds arm unpredicated BL instruction
  • #1444 adds the x86/amd64 plt corrector component to the Primus base system
  • #1445 updates the Sub.compute_liveness function to handle SSA form
  • #1446 provides the new liveness analysis
  • #1452 implements pcode floating-point and special operators
  • #1457 adds optional join for Knowledge.Domain.mapping
  • #1461 enables v8.{1,2,3,4,5,6}a revisions for the aarch64 target
  • #1464 adds arbitrary-precision loopless clz and popcount to Primus Lisp
  • #1460 adds compatibility with Core_kernel >= 0.15
  • #1466 adds semantics for the x86 SSE floating-point instructions
  • #1469 adds the jump destination addresses/names to the assembly output
  • #1458 adds more aarch64 instructions
  • #1473 adds an --arm-features command-line option
  • #1476 implements the naming scheme for interrupts
  • #1479 reifies external subroutines and intrinsics into I
  • #1482 enables BIR subroutines without an explicit return
  • #1481 enables disabling the patterns plugin
  • #1483 implements floating-point intrinsic subroutines
  • #1488 adds compatibility with OCaml 4.14 and Core v0.15
  • #1489 adds some missing functionality to Primus Lisp POSIX
  • #1490 adds some missing C POSIX APIs
  • #1492 makes bit-twiddling operations easier to read and analyze
  • #1493 adds smart constructors and destructors to the C types library
  • #1491 adds semantics for the x86-64 popq instruction
  • #1497 extends the C.Abi library
  • #1498 adds the extended lvalue assignment to Primus Interpreter
  • #1499 makes BIL smart constructors smart
  • #1500 makes argument passing well-typed
  • #1503 reimplements C types printing functions
  • #1504 extends the demanglers library to the new targets infrastructure
  • #1505 rewrites x86 abi using the new infrastructure
  • #1511 implements some missing Thumb instructions
  • #1513 implements the x86_64 padd instructions
  • #1515 allows target overriding
  • #1516 adds armv8 BFM instructions
  • #1517 publishes Theory.Target.nicknames and extends Primus Contexts
  • #1519 extends Core Theory with target registration and lookup
  • #1520 adds the high-level calling convention specification language
  • #1521 reimplements x86 targets using the new infrastructure
  • #1522 reimplements ARM ABI and target specification
  • #1523 rewrites mips targets and abi
  • #1524 adds C data type layout
  • #1525 adds the pass by reference argument passing method
  • #1526 restructures powerpc targets and reimplements ppc32 eabi
  • #1529 makes the ABI processors usable programmatically

Bug Fixes

  • #1391 fixes ARM/Thumb movt semantics
  • #1396 fixes the path plugin loader path handling
  • #1414 fixes the pc value in pc-relative thumb ldr
  • #1420 fixes the low-level Disasm_expert.Basic.create function
  • #1421 fixes the core-theory plugin semantics tags
  • #1426 fixes arm predication
  • #1438 reads correctly unqualified system names
  • #1439 fixes a bug in the KB update function, adds new functions
  • #1448 fixes an accidental dependency on the bap-traces internal module
  • #1449 fixes unconditional pop with return in thumb
  • #1455 fixes register assignments in p-code semantics
  • #1462 fixes the cast-signed Primus Lisp primitive
  • #1463 fixes the arithmetic modulus in Primus Lisp primitives
  • #1465 fixes handling of jmp terms in the flatten pass
  • #1467 fixes a sporadic internal error in the cache garbage collector
  • #1468 fixes the relocation symbolizer incorrect handling of intrinsics
  • #1458 fixes aarch64 bitmask immediate encoding
  • #1486 fixes type unification on binary operation application
  • #1485 fixes little-endian MIPS disassembling
  • #1494 fixes the encoding of the comparison operators
  • #1496 fixes registers allocation in the abi specification DSL
  • #1502 fixes the bitvector order function
  • #1528 fixes armv4t name that was missing the arm prefix

Tooling

  • #1393 improves the Primus Lisp documentation generator
  • #1397 fixes the macOS CI build
  • #1399 updates the url of the testing repo to use the encrypted version
  • #1432 updates the docker image
  • #1435 selects specific llvm components for linking
  • #1447 updates to the git+https in the dockerfiles
  • #1470 corrects linking of Unix library in configure
  • #1478 fixes the opam/opam dev-repo protocol which broke the release action
  • #1480 adds an automation to build a docker image for the latest release
  • #1514 adds the mmap dependency

Improvements

  • #1386 adds missing ARM target ABI information
  • #1388 adds aliasing information for x86
  • #1392 adds an option to directly use ogre files as a loader
  • #1398 provides the assembly string as a promise (removes #undefined)
  • #1400 improves the computation of the instruction properties
  • #1401 improves the KB.Value merge operation
  • #1402 moves promises and theories into the core-theory plugin
  • #1403 moves knowledge base rules from the library to the plugin
  • #1404 improves the peformance of the byte patterns matcher (1/3)
  • #1405 improves the performance of bitvectors (2/3)
  • #1411 [optimization] do not store empty objects in the knowledge base
  • #1412 updates the KB version number and adds a few more microoptimizations
  • #1413 updates bap to latest OCaml, switches to newer bitstrings
  • #1415 switches to patricia trees in the KB implementation
  • #1416 Reimplements x86 bitscan and popcnt
  • #1418 uses the builtin clz function from base, instead of the custom one
  • #1417 relaxes the speculative disassembler constraints
  • #1419 allows bapbuild to work when bap and other defaults are not present
  • #1422 relaxes interpreters to allow ill-typed operations
  • #1425 applies ARM modified immediate (MIC) decoding in more places
  • #1423 reimplements clz using the branchless/loopless algorithm
  • #1427 removes unnecessary units from the knowledge base
  • #1430 refines and extends target definitions
  • #1431 partially upgrades byteweight to work with the modern bap
  • #1441 uses Allen's Interval Algebra in the KB.Value merge implementation
  • #1442 wraps proposals into with_empty and adds more guards
  • #1443 adds subinstruction contraction to improve the ghidra lifter output
  • #1433 adds mode events to traces
  • #1450 hushes bil lifters
  • #1451 removes falls-through from unconditional branches in IR reification
  • #1454 improves the setw function used
  • #1456 removes Thumb2 branches from the legacy ARM lifter
  • #1471 uses function starts as the entires when building the symtab
  • #1472 improves disassembler performance
  • #1475 unifies name generation for IR subroutines
  • #1477 removes the special Primus Lisp primitive
  • #1484 disables byteweight
  • #1487 reduces memory footprint
  • #1501 makes all C data type sizes a multitude of their alignment
  • #1506 optimizes encoding computation for x86
  • #1510 adds an example on how to create a monad transformer stack (#1354)
  • #1518 uses signed casts for promoting arguments
  • #1530 turns x86 endbr instructions into nops
  • #1531 adds patterns to recognize certain x86 endbr as function starts
  • #1532 improves the main subroutine discovery within glibc runtime
  • #1535 prevents knowledge conflicts on mangled names