Re: [Qemu-devel] Binary translation (of code)

[Lluís <xscript@gmx.net>]

Tarmo Pikaro writes:

> Hi !
>> > I think self-modifying code is kinda rare case - it's made typically for
>> > protection againt hackers , and typically on pc side. Nintendo roms probably
>> > don't use this kind of
>> > protection.
>> 
>> It doesn't have to be protection, for example GCC generates
>> trampolines to stack when using nested functions.

> Ok, so apparently we will have some challenges on the way.

> I guess some sort of mutation - qemu + recompiler could be done as well...

It would be much easier to ship an executable containing both the guest
application and qemu, so that executing it starts qemu with a
pre-defined configuration and runs the guest binary.


Lluis

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