consider deprecation of SMDA backend #937
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breaking-change
introduces a breaking change that should be released in a major version
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we have some new major features coming that will be implemented for the viv (and probably IDA) backends; however, we don't have the bandwidth to implement the analysis for SMDA. we are considering removing the SMDA backend rather than let it bitrot.
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an example of a "major feature" we're considering is "function call argument scope". that is, for recognized API calls, extract the arguments (when feasible). we expect to be able to implement this for:
but for SMDA we don't have any obvious strategy, without re-implementing e.g. emulation. we could just not support this scope for SMDA, but if call scope works well for viv, we'll migrate many rules to use this syntax (instead of
basic block: api, number, string
). then, SMDA wouldn't work for many rules.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: