Theseus, a Static Windows Emulator

4 comments

• nxobject 17 minutes ago
  A follow-up question I'd like to ask to the author: if I understand correctly, one of the ideas is that you can write "high-level", almost platform-independent translations like:

      regs.eax = 3;
      regs.eax = add(regs.eax, 4);
      windows_api();  // some native implementation of the API that was called
  

  and rely on optimizers to do as much "lowering" or specialization to a platform as possible. I'd like to ask: how reliable have optimizers been in gettting those results (e.g. how much fiddling with various -Oxxx flags)?
• mmastrac 1 hour ago
  I think "recompiler" is the accepted term in the art, is it not?
• mysterydip 2 hours ago
  That’s a really clever idea/solution I hadn’t thought of before, and yet it makes “of course, duh” sense as well.
• pema99 1 hour ago
  See also the authors previous project retrowin32 https://github.com/evmar/retrowin32