macaw/refinement
Kevin Quick 3e7bd01560
[refinement] Disabled PPC switching test.
Attempting to refine the switching test for PPC executables ends up
with a non-terminating Z3 process, so this test is disabled until this
is diagnosed.
2019-02-08 17:32:21 -08:00
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src/Data/Macaw Added toCrucibleEndian in symbolic and use for memory setup in refinement. 2019-02-08 17:30:18 -08:00
tests [refinement] Disabled PPC switching test. 2019-02-08 17:32:21 -08:00
tools [refinement] Enable PPC testing. 2019-02-08 14:10:08 -08:00
Changelog.md Add README and Changelog and update cabal synopsis/description. 2019-01-07 15:13:50 -08:00
LICENSE Add refinement library. 2019-01-07 14:16:03 -08:00
macaw-refinement.cabal [refinement] Enable PPC testing. 2019-02-08 14:10:08 -08:00
README.md Add README and Changelog and update cabal synopsis/description. 2019-01-07 15:13:50 -08:00

Macaw Refinement Libary

The refinement library provides supplemental functionality for discovery of elements that macaw-symbolic is not able to discover via pattern matching. This library will use crucible symbolic analysis to attempt to determine elements that could not be identified by macaw-symbolic. The identification provided by macaw-symbolic is incomplete, and so is the identification by this macaw-refinement, but macaw-refinement attempts to additionally "refine" the analysis to achieve even more information which can then be provided back to the macaw analysis.

  • Terminator effects for incomplete blocks. For example, the target IP address by symbolic evaluation (e.g. of jump tables). If the current block does not provide sufficient information to symbolically identify the target, previous blocks can be added to the analysis (back to the entry block or a loop point).

  • Argument liveness (determining which registers and memory locations are used/live by a block allows determination of ABI compliance (for transformations) and specific block requirements (which currently start with a full register state and blank memory).

  • Call graphs. Determination of targets of call instructions that cannot be identified by pattern matching via symbolic evaluation, using techniques similar to those for identifying incomplete blocks.