Add support for decompiling PowerPC relocatables in the REL file format
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Description
I have a small powerpc application, which has most of its actual logic in a relocatable file and links that during runtime, similar as a DLL on Windows.
http://www.metroid2002.com/retromodding/wiki/REL_(File_Format)
http://wiki.tockdom.com/wiki/REL_(File_Format)
Is there any way retdec can decompile this REL file, too? It contains mostly code.
Can I tell retdec to force decompile this as raw file, treating everything as assembler code?
`./decompile.sh -a powerpc -e big -f raw ../../compil/StaticR.rel` tells me "raw" would be an unsupported format? Why? According to the readme, retdec supports raw machine code ...
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Research direction
Start with decompile.sh and the README sections covering raw machine-code input, then inspect how the PowerPC and REL inputs in the reported command are classified. Done means the requested REL support or raw-input behavior is defined, implemented, and demonstrated with StaticR.rel or an equivalent test case.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- compilers, reverse-engineering
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100