thanks for sharing, will check this out. mike On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 9:05 PM, James Courtier-Dutton <james.dut...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I know most compilers go from AST to CFG. > I am writing a decompiler, so I was wondering if anyone knew of any > documents describing how best to get from CFG to AST. > The decompiler project is open source. > https://github.com/jcdutton/libbeauty > > The decompiler already contains a disassembler and a virtual machine > resulting in an annotated CFG. It uses information gained from using a > virtual machine to annotate the CFG. Another use of the VM will be to > help analyze self modifying code. > > The decompiler can output C source code form the CFG, but it is not > easy to understand the result due to lack of structure such as for {} > loops. > I wish to create an AST from the CFG in order to be able to output for > {}, while {} and if...then...else structure. > > The CFG to AST step seems a little complicated, so I was looking for > some pointers to how best to do it to save me re-inventing the wheel. > > Kind Regards > > James
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