Unicorn CPU emulator framework (ARM, AArch64, M68K, Mips, Sparc, X86)
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Speed up indirect branches by jumping to the target if it is valid.

Softmmu measurements (see later commit for user-mode results):

Note: baseline (i.e. speedup == 1x) is QEMU v2.9.0.

- Impact on Boot time

| setup | ARM debian jessie boot+shutdown time | stddev |
|--------+--------------------------------------+--------|
| v2.9.0 | 8.84 | 0.07 |
| +cross | 8.85 | 0.03 |
| +jr | 8.83 | 0.06 |

- NBench, arm-softmmu (debian jessie guest). Host: Intel i7-4790K @ 4.00GHz

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NB. 'cross' represents the previous commit.

Backports commit 8a6b28c7b5104263344508df0f4bce97f22cfcaf from qemu
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bindings link to Crystal binding 2017-12-23 00:26:40 +08:00
docs Added note about installing tests dependencies on Mac OS X. Added note about tests failing when required architecture support is disabled in build. (#908) 2017-10-12 19:56:00 +08:00
include tcg: remove global exit_request 2018-03-02 09:38:08 -05:00
msvc tcg: move TCG_MO/BAR types into own file 2018-03-02 09:08:44 -05:00
qemu target/arm: optimize indirect branches 2018-03-02 21:18:15 -05:00
samples Fixed register mistake in comments (#894) 2017-09-17 16:40:01 +07:00
tests add 64-bit test demonstrating setting MSRs and FS/GS segments (#901) 2017-09-29 04:26:23 +08:00
.appveyor.yml MSYS test (#852) 2017-06-25 10:11:35 +08:00
.gitignore arm64eb: add support for ARM64 big endian. 2017-04-24 23:30:01 +08:00
.travis.yml use new travis osx image and brew (#935) 2018-01-05 10:29:49 +08:00
AUTHORS.TXT import 2015-08-21 15:04:50 +08:00
Brewfile Update Brewfile 2017-09-30 17:36:44 +07:00
ChangeLog update ChangeLog 2017-04-20 13:28:02 +08:00
config.mk Fix document file extension 2016-08-08 17:33:49 +09:00
COPYING import 2015-08-21 15:04:50 +08:00
COPYING.LGPL2 LGPL2 for all header files under include/unicorn/ 2017-12-16 10:08:42 +08:00
COPYING_GLIB glib_compat: add COPYING_GLIB 2016-12-27 10:15:08 +08:00
CREDITS.TXT update CREDITS.TXT 2017-04-25 12:56:47 +08:00
install-cmocka-linux.sh Start moving examples in S files (#851) 2017-06-25 10:14:22 +08:00
list.c callback to count number of instructions in uc_emu_start() should be executed first. fix #727 2017-06-16 13:22:38 +08:00
make.sh Added MSVC support for arm64eb. 2017-04-25 14:23:58 +10:00
Makefile crypto: introduce new module for computing hash digests 2018-02-17 15:23:17 -05:00
msvc.bat add msvc.bat 2017-04-21 15:35:40 +08:00
pkgconfig.mk bump extra version to 2 2017-04-21 15:30:40 +08:00
README.md add Clojure 2017-12-23 00:32:33 +08:00
uc.c Move target-* CPU file into a target/ folder 2018-03-01 22:50:58 -05:00
windows_export.bat Make the call out to visual studio extremely resilient 2017-01-02 03:32:48 -08:00

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.

Contact

Contact us via mailing list, email or twitter for any questions.

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.

CREDITS.TXT records important contributors of our project.