[Scummvm-devel] Ghidra - a FOSS RE toolkit from NSA

Paul Gilbert paulfgilbert at gmail.com
Thu Mar 7 21:41:39 CET 2019


Agreed. It still looks somewhat klunky in places compared to IDA, so I
definitely won't be giving up using IDA anytime soon. But I'm definitely
intrigued to experiment with it's decompilation when I finish with Glk work
and return to reimplementing other games.

DreamMaster.

On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 12:51 AM Arnaud Boutonné <strangerke at scummvm.org>
wrote:

> Yep it looks very interesting.... I think the best is to use IDA first to
> get as much as possible (typically at least Flirt signature) then switch to
> ghidra as it looks able to decompile functions... Cool :)
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 3:57 AM Paul Gilbert <paulfgilbert at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I've been hearing good things about it too, though I haven't yet looked
>> at it in detail. But from what I understand, it can decompile 16-bit DOS
>> programs, something not even Hexrays could do. Could be extremely useful in
>> the future to assist in re-implementing other DOS era games.
>>
>> DreamMaster.
>>
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>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 3:14 PM Filippos Karapetis <bluegr at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Great news!
>>>
>>> Yesterday, NSA (yes, THAT NSA) released a FOSS RE toolkit. It’s written
>>> in Java, it’s comparable to IDA and it’s free and open source!
>>>
>>> You can read all about it here:
>>>
>>> https://www.zdnet.com/article/nsa-release-ghidra-a-free-software-reverse-engineering-toolkit/
>>>
>>> Website:
>>> https://ghidra-sre.org/
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Filippos Karapetis
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