1Capstone is a disassembly framework with the target of becoming the ultimate
2disasm engine for binary analysis and reversing in the security community.
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4Created by Nguyen Anh Quynh, then developed and maintained by a small community,
5Capstone offers some unparalleled features:
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7- Support multiple hardware architectures: ARM, ARM64 (ARMv8), Mips, PPC, Sparc,
8 SystemZ, XCore and X86 (including X86_64).
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10- Having clean/simple/lightweight/intuitive architecture-neutral API.
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12- Provide details on disassembled instruction (called “decomposer” by others).
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14- Provide semantics of the disassembled instruction, such as list of implicit
15 registers read & written.
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17- Implemented in pure C language, with lightweight bindings for Visual Basic, PHP,
18 PowerShell, Emacs, Haskell, Perl, Python, Ruby, C#, NodeJS, Java, GO, C++, OCaml,
19 Lua, Rust, Delphi, Free Pascal & Vala ready either in main code, or provided
20 externally by the community).
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22- Native support for all popular platforms: Windows, Mac OSX, iOS, Android,
23 Linux, *BSD, Solaris, etc.
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25- Thread-safe by design.
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27- Special support for embedding into firmware or OS kernel.
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29- High performance & suitable for malware analysis (capable of handling various
30 X86 malware tricks).
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32- Distributed under the open source BSD license.
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34Further information is available at http://www.capstone-engine.org
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37[Compile]
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39See COMPILE.TXT file for how to compile and install Capstone.
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42[Documentation]
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44See docs/README for how to customize & program your own tools with Capstone.
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47[Hack]
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49See HACK.TXT file for the structure of the source code.
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52[License]
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54This project is released under the BSD license. If you redistribute the binary
55or source code of Capstone, please attach file LICENSE.TXT with your products.
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