UTF16 seems to be wrong when translating .exe to .ll
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Description
I tried to translate mknod.exe compiled by sygwin to mknod.ll.
At 0x0040EF64 of mknod.exe in idapro is
But the generated mknod.exe.ll is
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Research direction
Reproduce the translation of the attached mknod.exe and compare the generated mknod.exe.ll with the IDA view at 0x0040EF64. Trace RetDec's UTF-16 handling during executable-to-LLVM translation; done means identifying and correcting the discrepancy and verifying the generated LLVM output against the reference.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- compilers, reverse-engineering
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Needs clarification
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- 20/100