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@gitoleg gitoleg commented May 22, 2018

This PR brings a lot of changes in x86 packed instructions. The main goal is to make a bil code closer to the BIL normal form, i.e. to reduce an amount of an additional code injected during the normalization process as well a time spent for lifting.
As a result, bap works better with files that previously took approximately infinite time.

Affected instructions are:

  • different cases of pcmp, pmin, pmax;
  • instructions like psrl, psll, pavg, xorp;
  • instructions that compare strings: pcmpistri

Just few numbers to compare:
it was:

$: echo "\x66\x0f\xda\xc8" | bap-mc --show-bil | wc -l
327678
$: echo "\x66\x41\x0f\x3a\x63\x08\x4a" | bap-mc --show-bil | wc -l
Fatal error: out of memory.

it is:

$:echo "\x66\x0f\xda\xc8" | bap-mc --show-bil | wc -l
132
$: echo "\x66\x41\x0f\x3a\x63\x08\x4a" | bap-mc --show-bil | wc -l
139

Also, This PR adds few instructions to x86-lifter:
pmaxsb, pmaxsw, pmaxuw, pmaxud, pmaxsd and tests for them.

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👍 great job, thanks!


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open Core_kernel.Std
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try to use open Core_kernel in the new code, the Std module is deprecated

@ivg ivg merged commit d8806c9 into BinaryAnalysisPlatform:master May 23, 2018
@gitoleg gitoleg deleted the fix-packed-x86 branch October 10, 2018 13:04
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