x86 interpreter/debugger that shows the state of the stack and registers graphically

Kreijstal commented 5 years ago

Project description

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Imagine a x86 debugger but with a visual gui that shows you the state of the registers on every instruction, the use case for this is for teaching people about how x86 asm works, not necessarily making a fully functional x86 interpreter, that would be really hard. Although if you wanted to you could try aim for that.

There would be a table with registers, and a scrollable stack, for the byte values you would probably see all the possible interpretations: ASCII, hex, dec

Relevant Technology

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Well you would have to know a lot about UX and UI and then apply your asm knowledge into that. http://wwwi10.lrr.in.tum.de/~jasmin/ https://github.com/copy/v86 https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-sdm The question is which asm flavour to favour, I would lean toward NASM, but that could be done at your leisure.

Complexity and required time

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Complexity

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Required time (ETA)

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