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e but makes no effort to be compilable as a programming language. That being said, Binary Ninja has implemented different "views" on the HLIL so you can show it as pseudo-C, Rust, etc. There is a free online version and the commercial version is cheaper than IDA but still expensive. Good Python API, good UI. Ghidra [4] is the RE framework released by NSA. It is free and open source. It supports a ton of niche architectures. This is what most people use. I think the UI is awful, personally. It has a decompiler, the results are OK. They have an intermediate representation (P-Code) and plugins are in Java (since it is written in Java). I haven't worked much with it. Most online decompilations you see for old games are likely using Ghidra, some might be using IDA. This is largely a manual process of doing a function at a time and building up the mental map of the program and how things interact. Also worth mentioning are lifters. There were a few projects that aimed to lift assembly to LLVM IR (compiler framework's intermediate representation), with the idea being that then all your analyses could be written over LLVM IR as a lingua franca. Since it is in LLVM IR, it would be also recompilable and retargetable. [5][6] 1. https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2603/... 2. https://hex-rays.com/ida-free 3. https://binary.ninja/free/ 4. https://ghidra-sre.org/ 5. https://github.com/avast/retdec 6. https://github.com/lifting-bits/mcsema

3) Then use combination of "tree differ" ([2]) and compiler explorer to review the "differences", ([3]) C) Next setup up approach: 1) open source decompile to pseudo-C software: ghidra [4]; retdec [5] compiler ware: gcc -fdump-translation-unit or clang -ast-dump 2) Then use something graphbiz's dotty in conjunction with [6] nicst's tree diff util. D) Current, everything but the kitchen sink approach: Almost verything but the VR aspect, Non-free software for non-vr space ast idea: http://www.semdesigns.com/Products/DMS/DMSToolkit.html Query: Is there an open source interactive VR "full compiler stack" tree visualization, so one can "hand manipulate"/ move in/out of compile AST new code or color code diffs between old/new code and/or versions all in 3d? Resources: [2] ast tree diff utils : https://github.com/syntax-tree/awesome-syntax-tree [3] compiler explorer : https://godbolt.org/z/v4TdvE83b [4] ghidra: ghidra-sre.org [5] retdec: https://github.com/avast/retdec [6] nicst utils : https://github.com/syntax-tree/awesome-syntax-tree

u can use this to replace them in the IR with more-abstract "enter JITed code" instrinsic ops. Then, in the codegen phase of this compiler, you can have such intrinsics generate a shim of ARM instructions. Conveniently, since this intrinsic appears at the end of the JIT process, the memory at the address passed to the intrinsic will almost certainly contain finalized x86 code, ready to be re-compiled into ARM code. So the shim can just do a (hopefully memoized) call to the Rosetta JIT translator, passing the passed-in address, getting back the address of some ARM code, and jumping to that.