| This file details the changelog of Capstone. |
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| Version 2.0: January 22nd, 2014 |
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| Release 2.0 deprecates verison 1.0 and brings a lot of crucial changes. |
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| [ API changes ] |
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| - API version has been bumped to 2.0 (see cs_version() API) |
| - New API cs_strerror(errno) returns a string describing error code given |
| in its only argument. |
| - cs_version() now returns combined version encoding both major & minor versions. |
| - New option CS_OPT_MODE allows to change engine’s mode at run-time with |
| cs_option(). |
| - New option CS_OPT_MEM allows to specify user-defined functions for dynamically |
| memory management used internally by Capstone. This is useful to embed Capstone |
| into special environments such as kernel or firware. |
| - New API cs_support() can be used to check if this lib supports a particular |
| architecture (this is necessary since we now allow to choose which architectures |
| to compile in). |
| - The detail option is OFF by default now. To get detail information, it should be |
| explicitly turned ON. The details then can be accessed using cs_insn.detail |
| pointer (to newly added structure cs_detail) |
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| [ Core changes ] |
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| - On memory usage, Capstone uses much less memory, but a lot faster now. |
| - User now can choose which architectures to be supported by modifying config.mk |
| before compiling/installing. |
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| [ Architectures ] |
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| - Arm |
| - Support Big-Endian mode (besides Little-Endian mode). |
| - Support friendly register, so instead of output sub "r12,r11,0x14", |
| we have "sub ip,fp,0x14". |
| - Arm64: support Big-Endian mode (besides Little-Endian mode). |
| - PowerPC: newly added. |
| - Mips: support friendly register, so instead of output "srl $2,$1,0x1f", |
| we have "srl $v0,$at,0x1f". |
| - X86: bug fixes. |
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| [ Python binding ] |
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| - Python binding is vastly improved in performance: around 3 ~ 4 times faster |
| than in 1.0. |
| - Cython support has been added, which can further speed up over the default |
| pure Python binding (up to 30% in some cases) |
| - Function cs_disasm_quick() & Cs.disasm() now use generator (rather than a list) |
| to return succesfully disassembled instructions. This improves the performance |
| and reduces memory usage. |
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| [ Java binding ] |
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| - Better performance & bug fixes. |
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| [ Miscellaneous ] |
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| - Fixed some installation issues with Gentoo Linux. |
| - Capstone now can easily compile/install on all *nix, including Linux, OSX, |
| {Net, Free, Open}BSD & Solaris. |
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| [Version 1.0]: December 18th, 2013 |
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| - Initial public release. |
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