Change Log

11.0.1 (2021-06-14)

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Enhancements:

fix Position Independent Executable (PIE) handling (1042)

Bug Fixes:

Find function by address, not by entry (1047)
Fix implicit operand decoding of x86 instructions on non-x86 architectures (1044)
Fixing calling dwarf_getabbrevcode and refactoring debug logging in common (1037)
Search for 'version.h' when determining version for TBB (1041)
Fix data races and asserts discovered on Power (1038)
Remove the use of C++17's structured binding (1036)
Skip parsing of blocks whose code buffer is null (1033)
Remove debug printing that causes large output (1029)
Fix catch block parsing (1030)
Do not treat symbols in any text sections as data (.text, .init, or .fini) (1026)
Allow usage of SIGILL for signal trampolines (963)
Set -B and -S when configuring dyninstAPI_RT (1020)

11.0.0 (2021-04-08)

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Minimum Version Changes:

Bump minimum Boost version to 1.67 (993)
Require gcc >= 6.0 (932)
Add note about minimum elfutils version (912)
Require c++11 thread_local support (860)
Require standards-compliant c++11 ABI (882)

GPU Support:

Add support for instructions with largest opcode in each instruction family (1014)
Add Initial support for Analyzing Indirect Control Flow on Amdgpu Vega (979)
Fix unhandled enum values for Intel GPUs (955)
Fixing another bug related to amdgpu register names (948)
Fix a bug in MachRegister::name for AMD GPUs (928)
Add initial support for analyzing AMDGPU binaries (900)
Nvidia GPU slicing and support for opening Intel GPU binaries (865)
Add arch address for intel gen9 gpus (874)
Some necessary changes for overlapping text regions (855)

Enhancements:

Update copyrights to 2021 (1015)
Add a ParseAPI::Block constructor to allow external parsers to set correctly block end address (1011)
Clean up PLTFunction in dyninstAPI/Parse (1003)
add erase to 2 std::remove calls
Aggregate variable symbols based on offset and size (933)
make Symbol methods const (936)
Add direct tail call case for Point::getCallee (931)
Make assert expressions side effect free (927)
Improve single thread's backward slicing speed by 40% (917)
make symbol name demangling consistent (#872, #717)
Ensure data is copied in memoryTracker::realloc (886)
Include in CodeTracker.C (887)
clean up BoundFactCalculator constructor (884)
CodeSource destructor cleanup (883)
Fix memory leaks in BinaryEdit::openResolvedLibraryName (879)
Add lookup by name in block_instance::callee (875)
cleanup memoryTracker memory handling (876)
Provide correct default constructor for parse_func class (878)
Correctly destruct AddressSpace objects (871)
Update documentation for ParseAPI::CodeObject::CodeObject (870)
Remove include cycle in dyntypes.h (868)
Cleanup dyn_hash_{set,map} (861)
parseThat: remove autotools build files (858)
Replace BPatch_vector internal implementation with std::vector (844)
InstructionAPI docs: Update InsnCategory values returned from Instruction::getCategory (851)

Bug Fixes:

Remove assert in block_instance::callee(std::string const&) (999)
Fix breakage introduced by PR990 (997)
Fix non-deterministic inline function lookup when bad DWARF is generated for OpenMP outlined code (1012)
Fix wrong return value in DwarfHandle::init_dbg (939)
Fix memory leaks in emitElf (895)
SymElf: fix memory leak of cached demangled names
properly check for empty string in parseStabString
fix duplicate Windows demangle code
Fix PLT function call lookup (1001)
Fix undefined behavior in usage of std::transform (862)

DWARF Changes:

In DwarfWalker, start a new context dissociated from the current context (1013)
DWARF supplemental file and type parsing (1002)
Add debuginfod support (736)
Suppress parallelism in dwarf parsing when an alternative debug file is present (929)

Compiler Warning Cleanup:

Clean up "unused parameter" warnings on Aarch64 (1005)
Fix "unused parameter" warnings on PPC64 (1004)
Remove dead code from ia32_decode (989)
Clean up sign-compare warnings (991)
Add the default case in adhocMovementTransformer::isPCRelData to suppress compiler warning (995)
Clean up "unused variable" warnings (990)
Correctly declare Aggregate::operator<< (988)
Fix unhandled switch case in Region::regionType2Str (987)
Fix unused values (978)
Remove unused parameter 'b' from BoundFactsCalculator::Meet (983)
Fix string truncations in parseThat (982)
Use std::locale when writing a timeStamp to a stream (981)
Remove ignored cast qualifier in SnippetGenerator::findParameter (980)
Fix shifts of negative values (976)
Remove unused function 'InsertFrames' in parseAPI/Parser (977)
Fix deprecated usage of boost::bind (975)
Fix inclusion of boost deprecated headers (974)
Fix constructor member intializer list reordering (973)
Fix pointer arithmetic on 'void*' in codeGen::insert (972)
Remove usage of designated initializer in dwarfHandle.C (971)
Fix possibly uninitialized local variable in InstructionDecoder_aarch64 (970)
Fix ignored qualifiers on some C-style casts in Object-elf::read_val_of_type (969)
Fix C-string format specifier mismatch in Operand::getReadSet (968)
Fix several C-string truncations in parseThat (967)
Fix possible buffer overflow in parseThat::runHunt_binaryEdit (966)
Clean up "unused parameter" warnings (965)
Fix misleading indentation compiler warning in codeRangeTree::remove (964)
Remove empty region_data constructor (960)
Fix -Wreturn-type warning (956)
Remove unused parameter 'elf' from Object::parse_all_relocations (962)
Remove unused 'name' parameter from Collections::addGlobalVariable (961)
Fix compile warnings for AMDGPU for Release 11.0 (954)

Build Changes:

add missing libiberty include dir (950)
Make libiberty detection more flexible (922)
Correctly set up libiberty to be consumed by build system (901)

Remove Deprecated Functionality:

Remove JumpTableIndexPred::FillInOutEdges (959)
Remove BoundFactCalculator::CheckZeroExtend (958)
Remove BoundsFactCalculator::ThunkBound (957)
API-breaking changes for 11.0 release (920)
Remove old InstrucIter class references (890)
code cleanup integer funcs to * and / by constants
Remove unused lineDict class (880)
Remove bluegene support (847)
Remove vxworks support (859)
Replace pdvector with std::vector (856)
Remove vectorSet (857)
Remove vestiges of sparc (850)
Remove vestiges of AIX (849)
Remove binaryEdit::deleteBinaryEdit (866)

10.2.1 (2020-09-09)

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Implemented enhancements:

Remove exception specifications (841)
Remove unused Doxygen files from instructionAPI (829)
Remove deprecated members of BPatch_flowGraph (828)
Undeprecate mapped_object::getBaseAddress (827)
Remove unused symtabAPI/doc/symtab-text.txt (826)
Make ~DynObject virtual (813)
Remove cotire (816)
Fix cmake configuration with -pie (817)
Remove usage of miniTramp class (801)
Add include for Elf_X in emitElf.h (790)
Clean up some includes (796)

Fixed bugs:

Fix memory leak in singleton_object_pool (835)
Fix power instruction decoding regression
Fix aarch64 instruction decoding regression
Fix memory leak in singleton_object_pool
Fix memory leak in SymEval::expandInsn (793)
Fix aliasing bug of Region::buffer on copy (791)
Cleanup memory handling when emitting Elf for static libraries (789)

10.2.0 (2020-07-30)

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Implemented enhancements:

Fix Variable location parsing (781)
Fix proccontrol hangs in test_thread_X (780)
proccontrol: Handle "ghost" threads (742)
Elf extended numbering (776)
Expand the list of non-returning functions in CodeSource.C. (748)
Memory leak fixes (758)
C++ cleanup (610)
Libxul fixes (755)
Potential fixes needed for relocating libraries (754)
Add compiler-specific search directories in getResolvedLibraryPath (732)
More parallel parsing optimization and fixes (729)
Add search of libgcc.a to x86 and aarch64 (731)
PIE/PIC aarch64 rewrite implementation (698)
Fixes for AbsRegion and jump table index slicing involving global variable (695)
Parallel DWARF parsing and improved parallel code parsing (651)
Allow same address range to map to different source lines in DWARF (643)
Parse dwarf variables with abstract origin attribute (642)
Fix instrumentation regressions for libc-2.29 on ARM (653)
Implement the check of ThreadDB at BPatch level (667)
Use static AArch64 decoder tables. (633)
Don't use software breakpoints when creating traps for springboards (637)
ARMv8 initial work on rewriter (612)

Fixed bugs:

Revert CUDA binaries openning to libdw (787)
Updates for #780 (783)
Improve detection of ghost threads (784)
Remove Aggregate::setModule declaration (779)
Remove examples (764)
Improve logging in PCEventHandler::handleThreadCreate (772)
Retain hint function from CodeSource even if we do not parse the code object. (768)
remove unnecessary assertion for unknown phdr_type (757)
Use register x30 (Link Register) to generate long branch (720)
Do not use non-trivial types in varargs (704)
Remove undefined behavior from Symtab::Type (706)
Update Examples in dataflowAPI (700)
Prevent corruption to rax during stack alignment on x86-64 (670)
Ignore additional Eclipse file and spurious .gitignore (681)
Add explicit ElfUtils dependency for ParseThat and examples (678)
Add $INSTALL/lib/elfutils subdirectory to build paths (680)
Allow sterile builds (641)
Reorder includes to fix hidden build dependencies (665)
Deprecate Blue Gene/Q support (662)
Delete duplicate friend declaration of Parser in Block (649)
Rename getType() -> getDataClass() in Section 8.1 of SymtabAPI docs (661)
Fix spelling of getTypedefType in Section 8.1 of SymtabAPI docs (660)
Update handling of TBB CMake file for clang (654)
Fix typo in declaration of 'create' in Section 8.3 (659)
Change dataTypeDefine -> DataTypedef in DataClass enum documentation (650)
Use CMAKE_xx_COMPILER when building external dependencies (636)
Allow CMake files for dependencies to be included multiple times (639)
Fix overlapping bug of program header segments on fixPhdr. (618)
Updates TLS descriptors values in .dynamic section (ARMv8, #614)
Use private writable mmap when opening binaries and debug files (624)
Convert snprintf with PRIx64 to std::to_string (627)
Use PRIx64 macros for long long results for i686. (517)
Delete .syntastic_cpp_config
Add note on TBB usage when built from source

10.1.0 (2019-05-15)

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Implemented enhancements:

Unset library variables when building elfutils from source #561
Update LibIberty to new build system #601 (hainest)
ARM effective address calculation #594 (mxz297)
Elfutils cleanup #591 (hainest)
TBB Cleanup #584 (hainest)
Boost cleanup #578 (hainest)
Add initial support for decoding AMD FMA4 and XOP instructions #575 (mxz297)
Convert ThreadDB error message to info message #574 (hainest)
Fix compilation of thread_db_process #571 (sashanicolas)
Fixing TBB dependencies during build. #570 (sashanicolas)
Support parsing cubin in dyninst-10.0 #556 (Jokeren)

Fixed bugs:

InstructionAPI fails to decode some vector instructions on x86-64 #573
Make boost available after 'make install' #563
Assertion failure in LivenessAnalyzer::getLivenessIn(Dyninst::ParseAPI::Block*) #560
Homogenize cmake includes #557
Legacy test failures #550
Implicit ParseFunctionRanges is not thread-safe #360
GCC7 issues: new warnings, building with cotire causes GCC crash #321
[ARMv8 Decoding] SHA instruction should have 0s for bits 20 and 22 #264
[ARM Decoding] Some compare instructions should be invalid #251
[ARM Decoding] Reserved value for register shift field should create invalid insn #250
[ARM Syntax] Should print zero immediate for compares #237
[ARM Decoding] Compare instructions with zero ignore reserved bits #236
[ARM Decoding] SQSHL instruction has invalid bits set #235
[ARM Decoding] Invalid Subtract instruction #234
Update LibIberty to new build system #601 (hainest)
Update README to reflect new build system #597 (hainest)
TBB spack fixes #595 (hainest)
Fix BPatch_effectiveAddress on ppc where only low 32-bit address is extracted #593 (mxz297)
More fixes for parallel parsing, spring boards, and ARM #592 (mxz297)
Elfutils cleanup #591 (hainest)
TBB Cleanup #584 (hainest)
Boost cleanup #578 (hainest)
A few fixes for parallel parsing #572 (mxz297)
Fix bad interactions between patchAPI and parseAPI #564 (mxz297)
Elfutil version check #558 (hainest)
Add --enable-install-elfh when building elfutils from source #555 (hainest)
Attempts to fix legacy test failures in Dyninst test suite #549 (mxz297)

Closed issues:

Altering input operand of an instruction #590
BPatch_addressSpace replaceFunctionCall does not set R12 on Power #589
Trying to get a very simple PatchAPI example working #587
Cobwebs on the Documentation and boost 1.70.0 issues. #585
libboost_system.so.1.58.0: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line #579
Symtab should not always demangle every function name #577
Springboards can trample function data due to incorrect range #551
lib/libdw.so.1 not copied on install #547
linking old system libelf when found #546
Spack Build Failed with errors about variable not declared in the scope #544
separate debuginfo failures #542
Any support for ARM32 and MIPS #538
After instrument with dyninst binary exports functions from libc #529
Dyninst errors when building with boost-1.69.0 #526
Bpatch_effectiveAddress truncates memory addresses to bottom 32 bits (PPC Only) #524
segfault #523
Abort in Dyninst 10.0.0 when trying to open file: libcublas.so.9.2.88 #508
Dyninst-10.0.0 boost::shared_ptr<Dyninst::InstructionAPI::Instruction> instead of Dyninst::InstructionAPI::Instruction #505
Dyninst-10.0.0 undeclared EM_AARCH64 #503
dyninst 10 hangs on ppcle at bpatch.processAttach #502
function return value destroyed when instrumented function access the input parameters at return statement only #501
'repfunc' error #499
Mutator 'Aborted' when injecting BPatch_while #494
Segfault (nullptr deref) in getCalledFunction() #489
The return value at BPatch_exit points #391
Instrumenting indirect callsites and calltargets with labels #386
libelf install not copying libelf-0.168.so #375

Merged pull requests:

Compilation fix for boost 1.70 #600 (mxz297)
Bump minimum CMake version to 3.4.0 #598 (hainest)
Fix DwarfFrameParser, decodeDwarfExpression and DwarfResult #596 (sashanicolas)
simple working hybrid example of patchAPI #588 (ianamason)
Remove assertions for jump table analysis #576 (mxz297)
Should set errno to zero before calling ptrace #569 (mxz297)
Implement ARMv8 IMFC and Load/Store Shared #562 (LER0ever)
Fix ARM stack walking #559 (mxz297)
Fix tests in PIC mode #553 (mxz297)
Do not put newly added functions to .dynsym, which may cause the load #548 (mxz297)
Ppcle rhel8 fix #543 (mxz297)
Add some explicit casts from boost::tribool to bool for some code in #541 (mwkrentel)
Ignore Eclipse settings files and folders #539 (hainest)
Remove Travis and AppVeyor CI #537 (hainest)
Remove undefined behavior from bit-shifting code #536 (hainest)
fix missing installation of libdw when installing elfutils #531 (rafzi)
Adjust Dyninst to support injecting CFGs for CUBINs #530 (Jokeren)
Ppc pc fix #528 (mxz297)
Fix several bugs in common/src/pathName.C #527 (hainest)
Power abi v2 fixes #519 (mxz297)
Don't use system header <> syntax for dyninst includes #518 (stanfordcox)
Fix linemaps for CUBINs #516 (jmellorcrummey)
as needed, add -fopenmp flag when linking executables #513 (jmellorcrummey)
Fix whileExpr not generating the correct code and causing abort #510 (LER0ever)
Fixes signed/unsigned operations for comparison, multiplication, #509 (mxz297)
Add .dir suffix to examples/{codeCoverage,unstrip} #507 (stanfordcox)
Install docs into target doc dirs #506 (stanfordcox)

v10.0.0 (2018-11-09)

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Implemented enhancements:

Migrate Dyninst from libdwarf to libdw #328
Auto-detect Cilk #326
Make ParseAPI (optionally) multi-threaded #145

Fixed bugs:

Misc. x86 Decoding Issues #372
Segfault when singleton_object_pool reallocs #359
assert fails at insnCodeGen::generateBranchViaTrap #356
Incorrect function boundaries for functions sharing code #149

Closed issues:

Intel TBB install #500
Compilation Error #491
Build fails on Arch Linux #486
Power 8 Instrimentation stack frame generation destroys vector register values #484
Missing Vector Instructions and Reused Opcodes in Power 8 #483
Codegen gen.point() fails in most cases on Power (returns NULL) #482
Power support for code generation of long branch calls (i.e. branch with link to SPR) #481
relocation of branch +0x4 causes erratic behaviors on PowerPC #480
Handling Relocation of Power 8 Function Preamble #479
SymtabAPI dumps core when reading an exception table for a KNL (provided) binary #477
PCWidget::PCtoReturnAddr sets LR unnecessarily on non-x86 architectures #474
Spack Build Fails with missing dependency on libiberty #473
how to print the instruction which contains “cmp” #465
Instrumentation blocks not saving/restoring correct registers. #461
Segfault #456
InsertSnippet does not check if "when" parameter is legal #455
Heuristics to determined prologues #454
processCreate crashed on aarch64 #449
virtual bool AstCallNode::initRegisters(codeGen&): Assertion `callee' failed. Aborted (core dumped) #442
undefined reference to symbol '_ZNK7Dyninst14InstructionAPI11Instruction4sizeEv #440
cannot find -ldwarf? #439
xdrrec_create() type cast error: char* vs. void* #438
Error in build boost c++ library during installing Dyninst in Linux Ubuntu #435
dyninst not saving/restoring a register used in insertSnippet #434
Non-returning function analysis involving tail calls #433
Several problems for analyzing powerpc binarieson x86 #432
Patch without libdyninstAPI_RT.so #428
testsuite failures with separate debuginfo #423
make[2]: *** No rule to make target libiberty/libiberty.a', needed by common/libcommon.so.9.3.2'. Stop. #420
make failing in latest branch #419
Serious problem introduced when libdw was adopted #415
emitElf::createLoadableSections uses hard-coded sh_info #405
Memory corruption in ROSE memory pool allocator #400
ebx should be callee-saved #399
getFirstSymbol()->getMangledName SIGSEGV in PLT stub processing #396
disassembling issue #395
parseAPI shouldn't segfault if c++filt cannot demangle a symbol #390
The value of BPatch_registerExpr(BPatch_register reg) #388
Dyninst doesn't instrument the binary when it is compiled with -O3 flag (g++) #384
The address of instructions #380
Thunk call judgement condition #379
Is there any APIs that can be used for finding the indirect calls? #378
force boost build and force boost install #374
Compilation issue wrt to libdwarf an then zlib #373
CFG of stripped binary is empty #371
BPatch_statement::fileName() returns the empty string since somewhere between 9.2.0...9.3.0 #363
Power ABI v2 abstractions #119

Merged pull requests:

Vector instruction support on Power and recycled opcode #498 (mxz297)
Build fixes for parallel building and xdr-related issues #496 (LER0ever)
Merge parallel code parsing #488 (mxz297)
Power8 instrumentation fix #485 (mxz297)
symtab: fix memory error in Statement::getFile #469 (rafzi)
Vector categories merge into master #463 (jgalarowicz)
Fix for crashing on relocating at unistrumentable points #460 (bwelton)
New walker to walk out of Instrimentation Frames FP #452 (bwelton)
Fixes for testsuite failures on powerv7 and block boundary aligning for overlapping instructions #446 (mxz297)
Remove unused rpc/xdr references. #445 (stanfordcox)
Very minor clean-up a particualrly ugly piece of code. #441 (thomasdullien)
Fixes for non-returning functions, endianness for cross architecture parsing, and powerpc instruction decoding #437 (mxz297)
add missing initialization for flags when Elf_X is a memory image #430 (jmellorcrummey)
Fix sh_info for VERNEED section #427 (nedwill)
Bugfixes windows #418 (mitalirawat)
AArch32 ARM Parsing Support #417 (rchyena)
Parallel Parsing changes #416 (jmellorcrummey)
Add linux-vdso64.so.1 to the library blacklist. #414 (stanfordcox)
Handle R_X86_64_IRELATIVE relocation. #413 (stanfordcox)
Add basic support for EM_CUDA binary type #410 (jmellorcrummey)
Fix the crash issue of retee #408 (mxz297)
fix dwarf symbol frame #403 (sashanicolas)
Merging my jump table improvements, att_syntax, and arm semantics #401 (mxz297)
Fixing the destruction of objects under process control api. #382 (sashanicolas)
Add FORCE_BOOST CMake option for @lee218llnl #381 (wrwilliams)
fix a bug when generating relocation index #370 (fengharry)
Clean up and refactor reaching definitions for better readability #369 (morehouse)
Sfm/fixes/indirection fixes #368 (morehouse)
Pull request for arm64/feature/relocation into master #367 (ssunny7)
Pull request for att_syntax into master #366 (ssunny7)
Prevent non-PIC thunks from being classified as such #365 (morehouse)
Sfm/feature/reaching defs #364 (morehouse)

v9.3.2 (2017-04-17)

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Fixed bugs:

memcpy can fail with rewriter tests #355
dyninst does not build on i386 #343
[ARMv8 Decoding] SQ* instructions need to check bits with specific values #268
[ARMv8 Decoding] SMADDL and SMSUBL should have 32-bit register for operands 2 and 3 #266
[ARMv8 Decoding] SHL and SLI should have 0 for bit 11 #265
[ARMv8 Decoding] NEG instruction must have size = '11' #263
[ARMv8 Decoding] FMUL instruction cannot have size:q = '10' #262
[ARM Decoding] FMUL instructions cannot have 'size:L' == '11' #258
[ARM Decoding] Convert instruction immediate has reserved values (currently ignored) #257
[ARM Decoding] FCVTXN should be FCVTXN2 #255
[ARM Decoding] FCVT 'type' field cannot equal 'opc' field #254
[ARM Decoding] Reserved size value for some vector register instructions is ignored #249
[ARM Decoding] Stack pointer used where zero register should be #248
[ARM Decoding] Signed multiply instructions ignore size resitrictions #247
[ARM Decoding] Paired memory accesses must access aligned memory #245
[ARM Decoding] Convert instruction immediates appear incorrect at 64 #241
[ARM Decoding] Convert instruction immediate should not be larger than the register size #240
[ARM Syntax] Signed immediates should be shown as signed #239
[ARM Decoding] We should print the full operands of PRFUM #238
[ARM Decoding] Bad shift amounts. #233
[ARM Decoding] SIMD load instruction should be valid #223
[ARM Decoding] Decoding of MOVK instruction ignores restriction on combination of size and hw bits #222
[ARM Decoding] Decoding of ADDHN ignore reserved size bits #221
[ARM Syntax] Zero register should have sizing, either XZR or WZR #220
[ARM Decoding] Invalid CCMP and CCMN decoded as valid #219
[ARM Syntax] Shifted immediate for CCMP and CCMN #218
[ARM Syntax] Immediate out of range for LDRSB #217
[ARM Syntax] Repeated register number as constant #216

Merged pull requests:

More 9.3.2 cleanup #362 (wrwilliams)
Final cleanup bits for 9.3.2 #361 (wrwilliams)
Support 32-bit builds in Jenkins #350 (cuviper)
CMake fixup #349 (wrwilliams)
Add a macro MSROp #348 (ikitayama)
Fix up exception handling code so that we only consider call instructions for exception sensitivity and its attendant emulation #347 (wrwilliams)
Refactor BPatch_type so it always has a reference to its underlying symtab type. #346 (wrwilliams)
v9.3.x #341 (wrwilliams)

v9.3.1 (2017-03-02)

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Fixed bugs:

Abort on PPC64LE when trying to get line number info #337
Seg Fault on PPC64LE during attach #336
Memory leaks in indirect control flow analysis #322
BPatch_binaryEdit::writeFile() fails for stack diversification #311
Stackwalk issue on arm64 #303
Decode returns null shared pointer #288
Operands labelled "[empty]" with operand type mismatch (all with 0x67 prefix) #203

Merged pull requests:

Replaced a bunch of asserts with graceful error handling. #340 (wrwilliams)
Fix jump table analysis for lulesh #338 (mxz297)
Better handling of anonymous structs and unions #335 (wrwilliams)
Fix memory leaks found with lsan #333 (wrwilliams)
Suppress debug message when no vsyscall page was found on arm64 #332 (wrwilliams)
Use ifdef to guard x86 code #331 (wrwilliams)
Fix memory leaks in indirect control flow. #329 (wrwilliams)
Fixes for API and dependency issues in 9.3.0 #323 (wrwilliams)
Changing the URL of libelf to download elfutil. #318 (sashanicolas)
Displacement validation checks updated #314 (jdetter)
Release9.3/fixes/icc binaries #310 (mxz297)
Fix test_basic test error #309 (ikitayama)
Make dyninst compile on x64 windows #168 (pefoley2)

v9.3.0 (2016-12-22)

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Implemented enhancements:

Update build requirements: drop libelf.so.0 support #242
Merge AT&T syntax for x86 and ARM #210
Two options for opcode should print one, not both. #199
document proccontrol "tracking" APIs #151
Read access to SymtabAPI and ParseAPI should be thread-safe #144
New format for decoding tables #128
InstructionAPI disassembly should match AT&T syntax #4
x86 decoding and syntax fixes -- tentative #271 (jdetter)
findMain improvements #142 (jdetter)
Added asserts in liveness.C to prevent buffer underreads for #141 (jdetter)

Fixed bugs:

arm64 building current master fails #304
CMake boost error #300
arm64 pc_irpc test failure #296
arm64 pc_tls Library TLS was not the expected value #295
arm64 Problem with simple example code in the ProcControlAPI Programmer’s Guide #290
Stackanalysis asserts when analyzing __start_context in libc #283
test1_30 test failure #281
'nullptr' not declared for GCC 4.4.7-17 compiler #278
Test4_4 seems to be in deadlock on amd64_ubu14 #274
Testsuite not building with branch att_syntax_formerge #272
AppVeyor having issues downloading boost #270
PGI line info regression #243
att_syntax not building after merge #230
VEX3 and EVEX assert - decoding invalid should throw exception or return error #213
Race conditions with transient threads #208
Dynist returns error "(bad)" decoding for valid sal variants. #207
No opcode suffix and no register operand creates ambiguous size. #204
Instructions produce FIXME opcodes, but otherwise appear correct #202
Invalid instructions produce FIXME opcodes #201
Invalid register numbers for VEX3 instructions #200
Opcode suffixes do not take into account prefix bytes #198
Incorrect operand suffix for register size for string instruction #197
Decode incorrect VEX3 as valid instruction #196
Decode incorrect VEX2 as valid instruction #195
Double printing first operand #193
findMain failing on master under Jenkins #188
Call emulation causing testsuite failures #187
PPC64 generateBranchViaTrap: Assertion `isCall == false' failed. #175
error: ‘class func_instance’ has no member named ‘freeStackMod’ #165
make install not working on latest master #160
Add generated cotire directories to gitignore #158
test_pt_ls failing on master (RHEL6) #157
Assertion failed with a bad DYNINSTAPI_RT_LIB #153
Assertion failure in DwarfWalker #152
Segfault when a process is attached without specifying exe #146
Indirect jumps that use jump tables are not relocated correctly #139
PC-relative read in indirect jump was not modified during relocation #133
stackanalysis assert while running in 32bit mode on master #131
Assert in StackAnalysis on release9.2/fixes/test_pt_ls #130
Cannot find malloc symbol in libc.so #126
test_pt_ls fails with Dyninst master #123
Line information fixes for HPCToolkit #122
Rewrite exception handlers to adjust for relocated code #121
Assertion failure during rewriting #116
Crash during liveness analysis #114
Segfault during traversal of slice generated in StackMod #113
Segfault when parsing binary with no functions #53
rewriter tests fail/crash on ppc64 #34
Warnings not being properly disabled under Visual Studio #26
Cleanup ppc (and old gcc) issues #277 (wrwilliams)
CMake fixes for Cotie and GCC 4.4 compatibility #164 (jdetter)
fix insnCodeGen::modifyData's 64-bit conversion #163 (cuviper)
Fixes for test_pt_ls #143 (jdetter)

Closed issues:

ABI changes from v9.2.0 to v9.2_patches #136

Merged pull requests:

ARM64 fixes for stack walking #307 (wrwilliams)
Update AssignmentConverter instantiation to make use of stack analysis explicit. #306 (wrwilliams)
Bug fix for PR#294 #302 (wrwilliams)
Enhance DWARF parser to recognize (and skip) DW_TAG_member entries for static fields #299 (ma-neumann)
Fix omitting leading 0's when concatenating hex bytes in stringstream #298 (ma-neumann)
More manual fixes #297 (mxz297)
arm64: remove syscall tracing workaround #294 (ikitayama)
Autodetect RTLib location #293 (wrwilliams)
Small fixes #292 (wrwilliams)
Update manual version numbers and minor fixes #291 (mxz297)
Remove stackanalysis assertions #289 (wrwilliams)
Line info cleanup #287 (wrwilliams)
Passing test_pt_ls (at least on RHEL7) #286 (mxz297)
Sfm/fixes/untouched blocks #285 (morehouse)
Use in-place translation #284 (wrwilliams)
common: use ptrace if yama blocked process_vm_readv/writev #280 (cuviper)
Fix dependency of LibDwarf #279 (rafzi)
Compiling DynInst v9.2.0 on arm64 #273 (ikitayama)
proccontrol: fix double-increment while erasing a dead process #261 (cuviper)
Document some of the ProcControlAPI options in PlatFeatures.h. #260 (morehouse)
proccontrol: scrub newly created threads that fail to attach #259 (cuviper)
RT: trymmap should retry if the result is out of range #231 (cuviper)
Merge ARM instruction semantics and jump table parsing #228 (mxz297)
line info bugfixes #226 (wrwilliams)
LibraryTracker documentation #225 (wrwilliams)
proccontrol: Synchronize additional threads found during attach #214 (cuviper)
Fix errors when thread disappears during attach #212 (cuviper)
Added symbol linkage support for GNU unique linkage types #209 (bwelton)
Fix icc warning flags #206 (pefoley2)
Make dynC work on windows #205 (pefoley2)
pefoley2-boost_win #194 (wrwilliams)
ElfX: add xlate funcs #192 (wrwilliams)
proccontrol: check thread handle before calculating TLS #191 (cuviper)
Improved the findMain analysis significantly #189 (jdetter)
Exception frame rewriting fixes #186 (jdetter)
String table now includes an entry at zero for "unknown", so don't subtract from the DWARF file number. #185 (wrwilliams)
cmake: Fix not building when libiberty is automatically installed #183 (rafzi)
Determine the architecture of an ELF by looking at the file header in… #182 (rafzi)
Documentation updates -- tentative #180 (jdetter)
Fix operand types for vpand #177 (BlairArchibald)
symtabAPI: dont expect a data segment in elf; eliminate dead code #173 (rafzi)
elf: fix uninitialized isBigEndian for archives; duplicate code removal #172 (rafzi)
Support building with LTO #171 (pefoley2)
Fix various warnings under Visual Studio #169 (pefoley2)
Guard StackMod implementation from non-x86 architectures. #166 (morehouse)
Added generated cotire directories to gitignore #159 (jdetter)
symtabAPI: use the known type for new relocations #156 (cuviper)
Sfm/feature/interproc analysis #155 (morehouse)
Remove unnecessary assert from dwarfWalker. Fixes #152. #154 (morehouse)
proccontrol: fix process attachment without an exe #148 (cuviper)
proccontrol: fix process attachment without an exe #147 (cuviper)
Restored dyn_regs.h to v9.2.0 version #140 (jdetter)
Fixes significant ABI issues on v9.2_patches. #138 (jdetter)
Line info optimizations #135 (wrwilliams)
Matt's patch applied -- fixes test_stack_1 issue #134 (jdetter)
Rose build fixes #129 (pefoley2)
Merge arm64/feature/semantics_setup into master #127 (ssunny7)
V9.2 patches #124 (jdetter)
Release9.2/fixes/liveness patch #118 (jdetter)
Add config to build using Appveyor #19 (pefoley2)
Fix warnings produced when compiling with clang #14 (pefoley2)

v9.2.0 (2016-06-29)

Full Changelog

Implemented enhancements:

Dataflow documentation: Stack Analysis #31
Dataflow documentation: Slicing and SymEval #30
Dataflow documentation: Intro/Abstractions #29

Fixed bugs:

Rewriting with StackMods broken #111
Assertion during libxul PIE rewriting (VEX/master) #110
Testsuite failures on master/VEX for 32 bit platform #104
RHEL6 "cannot allocate memory in static TLS block" #101
Infinite recursion in TLS tramp guard #98
Rewritten binary dies with SIGILL #96
pc_fork_exec failure on master and VEX #94
Rewritten libc.so is not usable #93
dyninstAPI_RT build failure on Windows #92
amd64_7_arg_call passing, then segfaulting from shared pointer on VEX #90
Multiple testsuite failures on VEX #89
New instruction decoding problem in master branch #88
Build failure on windows #86
Dyninst parsing part of function multiple times #83
runTest -test pc_addlibrary fails/dumps core (actually, none of the proccontrol tests run) #81
Problems with Instruction API parsing x86-64 binaries: xhpl executable #80
Problems with Instruction API parsing x86-64 binaries: sqrtsd #79
parseThat not outputting executable binary (Exec format error) #71
symtabAPI fails to link on 32bit linux #70
Dyndwarf assert thrown on latest master #67
decodeOneOperand() called with unknown addressing method 18 #66
Segfault during PIE rewriting #65
walkSingleFrame run against local process on WIndows crashes #64
Symtab can't find any functions without libc #58
Rewriting of binaries with GNU_RELRO segment fails on master #52
Master timeout on test4_2 and test4_4 on Fedora23 #50
ERROR: failed bind/eval #48
Possible slicing/frame issue #44
dyninstAPI documentation typo #41
MachRegister::getReturnAddress not implemented on x86/x86_64 #40
Master not building with boost 1.58.0 (undefined references) #38
ptrace_peektext failing and producing spam in thread tests #36
Test 4_1, 4_2, and 4_4 fail on ppc64 #35
test1_33 fails on ppc64 #33
PLT entries misparsed on ARM #32
BPatch_function.C.o build failure on PPC64le #23
getABIVersion() not defined in Object-nt.h #21
Enable build only if .travis.yml is present option for repo #20
Bundling cvconst.h #17
Missing htobe32 function under Visual Studio #16
Line info gets misfiled into incorrect Modules #15
./runTests -test test1_1 fails on ppc64 platform #8
LivenessAnalyzer::isMMX assertion failure #7
"Bad addressing mode!" in F23 libm.so #6
pc_tls fails #3
pc_add_library fails in attach mode on 9.2.x #2
test_mem_* fails on 9.2.x #1

Merged pull requests:

Disabled condition decoding in stack rewriting. #112 (jdetter)
symtabAPI: Apply corrections for the library_adjust page offset #109 (cuviper)
fix dll linkage on windows #108 (pefoley2)
Rewriter fixes, instruction decoding fixes. #107 (jdetter)
Don't use broken llvm apt mirror #105 (pefoley2)
Fixes for jump table, instruction decoding, windows proccontrol #102 (mxz297)
RTlib: use static TLS for the tramp guard #99 (cuviper)
Visual Studio Build Fixes #97 (pefoley2)
Refactor RTheap to avoid doing arithmetic with void* #95 (pefoley2)
Latest fix for rice folks #91 (mxz297)
Build fix for addrtranslate #87 (pefoley2)
Temporarily disable broken clang build #85 (pefoley2)
Simplify INTERP logic for better consistency #84 (cuviper)
Fix for square root floating point instructions #82 (jdetter)
Set defaults for Windows first-party stack walking: library tracker #78 (wrwilliams)
Define htobe on Windows/MSVC as a wrapper for _byteswap_ulong #77 (wrwilliams)
release9.2/bugs/rtheap_mmap_only #76 (wrwilliams)
Fix 32-bit build; rename emitElf64 to emitElf #73 (wrwilliams)
Truncate PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG exit status to int #69 (cuviper)
Fix Function/Module mapping #61 (wrwilliams)
Fix rewriting interp sections and debug symbols #57 (cuviper)
Fix uninitialized data in rewriter elf_update #54 (cuviper)
Merge 9.2 branch back to master #51 (wrwilliams)
fix#48 #49 (wrwilliams)
symtabAPI: don't free cuDIE in parseLineInfoForCU #47 (cuviper)
symtabAPI: comment out some debug chatter #46 (cuviper)
Remove low-level warnings from ptrace read/write failures #43 (cuviper)
Recover from a bad force push. #42 (wrwilliams)
Remove low-level warnings from ptrace read/write failures #39 (cuviper)
Fix #23, build failure on PPC64le #25 (pefoley2)
Provided base class virtual for getABIVersion() that returns false when not implemented #24 (mcfadden8)
Allow dyninst to be compiled using clang #13 (pefoley2)
Add initial file for travis #12 (pefoley2)
Misc fixes and improvements #11 (pefoley2)
ProcControl and Symtab support for ppc64le #10 (mcfadden8)