Unicorn CPU emulator framework (ARM, AArch64, M68K, Mips, Sparc, X86)
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Peter Maydell be197f9857 target/arm: Implement v8.1M branch-future insns (as NOPs)
v8.1M implements a new 'branch future' feature, which is a
set of instructions that request the CPU to perform a branch
"in the future", when it reaches a particular execution address.
In hardware, the expected implementation is that the information
about the branch location and destination is cached and then
acted upon when execution reaches the specified address.
However the architecture permits an implementation to discard
this cached information at any point, and so guest code must
always include a normal branch insn at the branch point as
a fallback. In particular, an implementation is specifically
permitted to treat all BF insns as NOPs (which is equivalent
to discarding the cached information immediately).

For QEMU, implementing this caching of branch information
would be complicated and would not improve the speed of
execution at all, so we make the IMPDEF choice to implement
all BF insns as NOPs.

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msvc msvc: Define CONFIG_TCG 2019-01-30 13:52:30 -05:00
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install-cmocka-linux.sh Start moving examples in S files (#851) 2017-06-25 10:14:22 +08:00
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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.

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.