Comment by cookiengineer
1 year ago
Do you have book recommendations in regards to disassembly, syscalls, x86/64 assembler etc?
What do I need to know to be able to build something as advanced as rosetta?
I am assuming that you reimplemented the syscalls for each host/guest system as a reliable abstraction layer to test against. But so many things are way beyond my level of understanding.
Did you build your own assembler debugger? What kind of tools did you use along the way? Were reversing tools useful at all (like ghidra, binaryninja etc)?
"Virtual Machines: Versatile Platforms for Systems and Processes" by Jim Smith and Ravi Nair is a great book on the topic.
Thank you. Other than papers, I think this is one of the rare books that talk extensively about dynamic recompilation. I was hoping to learn more about the PPC M68K emulator (early version interpreter style and later version dynamic recompilation style) and definitely will read it.