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g4re: Harnessing GCC to Reverse Engineer C++ Applications

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

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 5161, Transformation Techniques in Software Engineering (2006)

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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)

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@InProceedings{kraft_et_al:DagSemProc.05161.4,
  author =	{Kraft, Nicholas A. and Malloy, Brian A. and Power, James F.},
  title =	{{g4re: Harnessing GCC to Reverse Engineer C++ Applications}},
  booktitle =	{Transformation Techniques in Software Engineering},
  pages =	{1--11},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2006},
  volume =	{5161},
  editor =	{James R. Cordy and Ralf L\"{a}mmel and Andreas Winter},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.05161.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-4244},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.05161.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: Reverse engineering, schema, GXL}
}

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