Unicorn CPU emulator framework (ARM, AArch64, M68K, Mips, Sparc, X86)
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target/arm: Implement tailchaining for M profile cores
Tailchaining is an optimization in handling of exception return
for M-profile cores: if we are about to pop the exception stack
for an exception return, but there is a pending exception which
is higher priority than the priority we are returning to, then
instead of unstacking and then immediately taking the exception
and stacking registers again, we can chain to the pending
exception without unstacking and stacking.

For v6M and v7M it is IMPDEF whether tailchaining happens for pending
exceptions; for v8M this is architecturally required. Implement it
in QEMU for all M-profile cores, since in practice v6M and v7M
hardware implementations generally do have it.

(We were already doing tailchaining for derived exceptions which
happened during exception return, like the validity checks and
stack access failures; these have always been required to be
tailchained for all versions of the architecture.)

Backports commit 5f62d3b9e67bfc3deb970e3c7fb7df7e57d46fc3 from qemu
2018-08-16 07:03:51 -04:00
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include cpu: Convert cpu_index into a bitmap 2018-03-21 08:06:07 -04:00
msvc Makefile: Rename TARGET_DIRS to TARGET_LIST 2018-06-08 19:22:45 -04:00
qemu target/arm: Implement tailchaining for M profile cores 2018-08-16 07:03:51 -04:00
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Unicorn Engine

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Unicorn is a lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework based on QEMU.

Unicorn offers some unparalleled features:

  • Multi-architecture: ARM, ARM64 (ARMv8), M68K, MIPS, SPARC, and X86 (16, 32, 64-bit)
  • Clean/simple/lightweight/intuitive architecture-neutral API
  • Implemented in pure C language, with bindings for Crystal, Clojure, Visual Basic, Perl, Rust, Ruby, Python, Java, .NET, Go, Delphi/Free Pascal and Haskell.
  • Native support for Windows & *nix (with Mac OSX, Linux, *BSD & Solaris confirmed)
  • High performance via Just-In-Time compilation
  • Support for fine-grained instrumentation at various levels
  • Thread-safety by design
  • Distributed under free software license GPLv2

Further information is available at http://www.unicorn-engine.org

License

This project is released under the GPL license.

Compilation & Docs

See docs/COMPILE.md file for how to compile and install Unicorn.

More documentation is available in docs/README.md.

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Contribute

If you want to contribute, please pick up something from our Github issues.

We also maintain a list of more challenged problems in a TODO list.

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