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| author | Jordan Wiens <jordan@psifertex.com> | 2023-12-19 16:39:07 -0500 |
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| committer | Jordan Wiens <jordan@psifertex.com> | 2023-12-19 16:39:07 -0500 |
| commit | 66be2657a30056b99fab83c7211092f288b44e69 (patch) | |
| tree | 595d9c19d8f5a230243d35d559afcd1595ecbf2c /docs/dev/bnil-overview.md | |
| parent | 050e9a9888f12c42da6e64786ab9428ee98a5fe5 (diff) | |
add SSA to important concepts
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diff --git a/docs/dev/bnil-overview.md b/docs/dev/bnil-overview.md index 31fd7404..480b9873 100644 --- a/docs/dev/bnil-overview.md +++ b/docs/dev/bnil-overview.md @@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ While the image above shows a bit of the logical relationships between each IL i - Lifted IL is intended to be a straight-forward translation from native instruction semantics to LLIL instructions. Note that Lifted IL and LLIL share the same instructions and are substantively similar with a few small differences. - Low Level IL (LLIL) is converted from Lifted IL, LLIL removes NOP instructions and folds flags into conditional instructions but otherwise contains the same operations as Lifted IL. -- Low Level IL SSA Form is an [SSA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_single_assignment_form) form of LLIL. +- Low Level IL SSA Form is an [SSA](conceps.md#static-single-assignment-basics) form of LLIL. - Mapped Medium Level IL is a translation layer between LLIL that is rarely needed for analysis but is useful for the translation process. - Medium Level IL (MLIL) translates registers and memory accesses into variables, types are associated with variables, platform information is used to generate call sites with types (both inferred and explicit) and parameters, data flow is calculated and constants are propagated. -- Medium Level IL SSA Form is an [SSA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_single_assignment_form) form of MLIL. +- Medium Level IL SSA Form is an [SSA](conceps.md#static-single-assignment-basics) form of MLIL. - High Level IL (HLIL) [builds on](https://api.binary.ninja/binaryninja.function-module.html#binaryninja.function.Function.request_debug_report) (use the `high_level_il` report type) MLIL by adding higher level control flow instructions, a number of dead-code and variable passes as well as other simplification/folding. It also includes an [AST](https://api.binary.ninja/binaryninja.highlevelil-module.html#binaryninja.highlevelil.HighLevelILInstruction.ast). |