g4re: Harnessing GCC to Reverse Engineer C++ Applications

Kraft, Nicholas A.; Malloy, Brian A.; Power, James F.

doi:10.4230/DagSemProc.05161.4

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g4re: Harnessing GCC to Reverse Engineer C++ Applications

Authors Nicholas A. Kraft, Brian A. Malloy, James F. Power

Part of: Volume: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 5161
Part of: Series: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license
Publication Date: 2006-03-07

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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.05161.4
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-4244

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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 11 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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Nicholas A. Kraft, Brian A. Malloy, and James F. Power. g4re: Harnessing GCC to Reverse Engineer C++ Applications. In Transformation Techniques in Software Engineering. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 5161, pp. 1-11, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2006) https://doi.org/10.4230/DagSemProc.05161.4

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Nicholas A. Kraft

Brian A. Malloy

James F. Power

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