Kraft, Nicholas A. and Malloy, Brian A. and Power, James F.
(2005)
g4re: Harnessing GCC to Reverse Engineer C++ Applications.
In: Dagstuhl Seminar # 05161, Transformation Techniques in Software Engineering, 17-22 April 2005, Schloss Dagstuhl.
Abstract
In this paper, we describe g4re, our tool chain
that exploits GENERIC, an intermediate format incorporated
into the gcc C++ compiler, to facilitate
analysis of real C++ applications. The gcc
GENERIC representation is available through a file
generated for each translation unit (tu), and g4re
reads each tu file and constructs a corresponding Abstract
Semantic Graph (ASG). Since tu files can be
prohibitively large, ranging from 10 megabytes for a
“hello world” program, to 18 gigabytes for a version
of Mozilla Thunderbird, we describe our approach
for reducing the size of the generated ASG.
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Conference or Workshop Item
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| Keywords: |
g4re; tool chain; Reverse engineering; schema; GXL; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science |
| Item ID: |
6412 |
| Depositing User: |
Dr. James Power
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| Date Deposited: |
28 Sep 2015 15:58 |
| Refereed: |
No |
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