Capstone Engine
===============

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Capstone is a disassembly framework with the target of becoming the ultimate
disasm engine for binary analysis and reversing in the security community.

Created by Nguyen Anh Quynh, then developed and maintained by a small community,
Capstone offers some unparalleled features:

- Support multiple hardware architectures: ARM, ARM64 (ARMv8), Ethereum VM, M68K,
  Mips, PPC, Sparc, SystemZ, TMS320C64X, M680X, XCore and X86 (including X86_64).

- Having clean/simple/lightweight/intuitive architecture-neutral API.

- Provide details on disassembled instruction (called “decomposer” by others).

- Provide semantics of the disassembled instruction, such as list of implicit
  registers read & written.

- Implemented in pure C language, with lightweight bindings for Clojure, F#,
  Common Lisp, Visual Basic, PHP, PowerShell, Emacs, Haskell, Perl, Python,
  Ruby, C#, NodeJS, Java, GO, C++, OCaml, Lua, Rust, Delphi, Free Pascal & Vala
  ready either in main code, or provided externally by the community).

- Native support for all popular platforms: Windows, Mac OSX, iOS, Android,
  Linux, \*BSD, Solaris, etc.

- 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).

- Distributed under the open source BSD license.

Further information is available at http://www.capstone-engine.org


Compile
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See COMPILE.TXT file for how to compile and install Capstone.


Documentation
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See docs/README for how to customize & program your own tools with Capstone.


Hack
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See HACK.TXT file for the structure of the source code.


License
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This project is released under the BSD license. If you redistribute the binary
or source code of Capstone, please attach file LICENSE.TXT with your products.
