LLBT: An LLVM-based static binary translator

CASES'12 - Proceedings of the 2012 ACM International Conference on Compilers, Architectures and Synthesis for Embedded Systems, Co-located with ESWEEK

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 51-60

  Shen, Bor Yeh ^a   Chen, Jiunn Yeu ^a   Hsu, Wei Chung ^a   Yang, Wuu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Compiler; Intermediate representation; Retargeting; Static binary translation

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK SUITES; BINARY TRANSLATION; CODE DISCOVERY; CODE QUALITY; COMPACT CODE; COMPILER; COMPREHENSIVE OPTIMIZATIONS; DYNAMIC BINARY TRANSLATION; ENTRY/EXIT; GENERAL SOLUTIONS; INDIRECT BRANCH; INTERMEDIATE REPRESENTATIONS; LLVM COMPILERS; MEMORY OPERATIONS; REGISTER ALLOCATION; RETARGETABILITY; RETARGETING; STATE SAVING; VARIABLE LENGTH;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROGRAM COMPILERS;

MEMORY ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84869001952     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2380403.2380419     Document Type: Conference Paper

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