Additional HLL Emission Options
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Description
There are two suggestions I would like to introduce.
Header Output
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* An option to specify the emission of a header file upon completion. This would include all the global variables and forward declarations instead of having a massive list of declarations at the beginning of the hll output file.
Split by Class/Namespace
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* An option to specify the emission of all detected class elements into a file of that name.
* Any function or class that is detected to be within a namespace would be emitted into an output file within a folder with said namespace's name.
* Each output file would additionally be output in a folder with the specified output name or the input filename by default.
These two options could greatly reduce the size and clutter of the emitted hll code. Retdec does a superb job of detecting classes from available rtti. Retdec is able to detect 444 classes from the game I am working with to learn from. Splitting the hll output by class would make it much easier to rebuild these classes and to keep track of what has been done.
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Research direction
No files or tests are named. Start by locating the HLL emission entry point and existing output-option handling, then determine how header generation and class/namespace-based file splitting fit the current design; done means both options produce the requested organized output without breaking existing emission.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- reverse-engineering
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100