An LLVM-based hybrid binary translation system

7th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems, SIES 2012 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 229-236

  Shen, Bor Yeh ^a   You, Jyun Yan ^a   Yang, Wuu ^a   Hsu, Wei Chung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK SUITES; BINARY TRANSLATION; CODE DISCOVERY; DYNAMIC BINARY TRANSLATION; DYNAMIC TRANSLATION; EXECUTION TIME; INDIRECT BRANCH; LOCATION PROBLEMS; RUNTIME BEHAVIORS; RUNTIMES;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

BINARY CODES;

EID: 84871566229     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIES.2012.6356589     Document Type: Conference Paper

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