Project Summary
Capstone is a lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework.
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- Multi-architectures: Arm64 (v8), Mips, PowerPC, Sparc, SystemZ, XCore & X86 (include X86_64) (details).
- Clean/simple/lightweight/intuitive architecture-neutral API.
- Provide details on disassembled instruction (called “decomposer” by some others).
- Implemented in pure C language, with bindings for Python, Ruby, C#, NodeJS, Java, GO, C++, OCaml, Lua, Rust & Vala available.
- Native support for Windows/*nix/iOS.
- Thread-safe by design.
- Special support for embedding into firmware or OS kernel.
- High performance & suitable for malware analysis (capable of handling various X86 malware tricks).
- Under BSD license.
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took an estimated 35 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in November, 2013
ending with its most recent commit over 2 years ago
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