Design Decisions

• Design and Architecture
  • Choosing a Disassembler for DecomPy
    • Descriptions of Possible Compilers
    • Analysis of Dissasembler Options
      • Easiest Integration
      • Best x86 Generation
    • Overall Suggestion for the Project
    • Capstone
    • udis86 - The runner-up
• Data Gathering
  • Overview
    • Why is this necessary?
    • What is the process?
    • How to Start
    • How to Use
    • Overview of Each Step
  • Filtering the Repositories
    • Relevant Classes
  • Scraping and Downloading Files from GitHub using GitHubScraper
    • Overview
    • Relevant Classes
    • Relevant Methods
    • How To Use
    • How does GitHubScraper Scrape?
      • Entry Point
      • Getting Page Contents
      • Extracting URLs from Page Content
      • Filtering Useful URLs from URLs
      • Validating URLs
      • Going Through All Repository Directories
    • How Does GitHubScraper Deal With Files?
      • Downloading Files
      • Storing Files
      • Updating json file
    • How Does GitHubScraper Multithread work?
    • What is the Performance of GitHubScraper?
    • How Is GitHubScraper Tested?
  • Filtering the Files
  • Generating LLVM IR from C Source
  • Compiling C Source to Various Formats
• Database
  • Designing the Database
  • Creating and Using the Database
• Binary Lifting
  • Current Suggestion
  • llvm-mctoll
  • fcd
  • fcd+remill
  • McSema
  • libbeauty
  • bin2llvm
  • Dagger
• Using an Existing Decompiler
  • Using FCD
    • Making a Module in FCD
    • Pros and Cons
• LLVM Comparison
  • Comparing the LLVM Classes that Describe a Program
  • LLVM Comparison for Tracking Decompiling Progress
• LLVM Comparison
  • Searching for Snippets: Tries and Tokenization
  • Tokenizing LLVM