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It looks pretty promising! How would you compare the strengths/weaknesses?


Full disclosure, I'm one of the nyxstone developers - so I might be biased.

In comparison to capstone, nyxstone lacks the features of instruction decomposition and providing read/written registers. In addition, nyxstone directly interfaces with LLVM and thus is expected to be a lot slower than capstone, which uses instruction tables generated by a modified LLVM.

I want to note here that Nyxstone is intended more as a replacement for Keystone than Capstone. We added the disassembler mainly because we could. Compared to Keystone, nyxstone allows precise definition of target triple and ISA extensions, allows definition of external labels, supports structured output with instruction details (address, bytes, assembly), rejects partial and invalid inputs and rejects instructions not supported by the specific core (for example UMAAL is supported by Cortex-M4, but not by Cortex-M3), and is more up to date. Nyxstone does not require patches in the LLVM source tree, and thus is (I'd argue) more maintainable and easier to keep up to date.




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