unarm

Disassembler for the ARM instruction set, inspired by ppc750cl. It currently supports the following versions:

• ARMv4T
• ARMv5TE
• ARMv6K

Contents

• Disassemblers
  • Performance (ARM)
  • Performance (Thumb)
• Usage
  • 32-bit Thumb instructions

Disassemblers

The /disasm/ module has disassemblers for ARM and Thumb instructions of the supported versions of ARM.

• They are generated from arm.yaml files in the /specs/ directory by the /generator/ module.
• They accept all 2^32 possible ARM instructions and 2^16 Thumb instructions without errors.
• No promises that the output is 100% correct.
  • Some illegal instructions may not be parsed as illegal.
  • Some instructions may not stringify correctly.
  • (more, probably)

Performance (ARM)

Tested on all 2^32 ARM instructions in each supported version using the /fuzz/ module on a single thread:

• Intel Core i7-8700: 140 million insn/s (~534 MB/s)

Performance (Thumb)

Tested on all 2^16 Thumb instructions in each supported version using the /fuzz/ module on a single thread, averaged after 100,000 iterations:

• Intel Core i7-8700: 256 million insn/s (~488 MB/s)

Usage

Below is an example of using unarm to parse an ARMv5TE instruction.

use unarm::{args::*, v5te::arm::{Ins, Opcode}};

let ins = Ins::new(0xe5902268, &Default::default());
assert_eq!(ins.op, Opcode::Ldr);

let parsed = ins.parse(&Default::default());
assert_eq!(
    parsed.args[0],
    Argument::Reg(Reg { reg: Register::R2, deref: false, writeback: false })
);
assert_eq!(
    parsed.args[1],
    Argument::Reg(Reg { reg: Register::R0, deref: true, writeback: false })
);
assert!(matches!(
    parsed.args[2],
    Argument::OffsetImm(OffsetImm { value: 0x268, post_indexed: false })
));
assert_eq!(parsed.display(Default::default()).to_string(), "ldr r2, [r0, #0x268]");

32-bit Thumb instructions

Thumb uses 16-bit instructions, trading a subset of ARM instructions for smaller code size. However, this leaves little room for BL/BLX target offsets. This would mean that function calls further than ±1KB away would only be possible using a register as target address, which could take 3 or 4 instructions in total.

To solve this, Thumb includes "32-bit" BL and BLX instructions with a maximum offset of ±4MB. In truth, these are just two 16-bit instructions strung together. For BL, we call them Opcode::BlH and Opcode::Bl. For BLX, we call them Opcode::BlH and Opcode::BlxI. The first instruction is the same for BL and BLX.

To tell if an instruction needs to be combined, you can use Ins::is_half_bl(&self), which simply checks if the opcode is Opcode::BlH. To combine two instructions into a BL/BLX, use ParsedIns::combine_thumb_bl(&self, second: &Self).