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Decompilation of LLVM IR

Simon Moll
Saarland University
Saarland University, 2011

@bachelorsthesis{Moll:2011:BSc,

   author={Simon Moll},

   title={Decompilation of LLVM IR},

   school={Saarland University},

   year={2011},

   month={February},

   webpdf={http://www.cdl.uni-saarland.de/publications/theses/moll_bsc.pdf}

}

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Recently, in many important domains, high-level languages have become the code representations with widest platform support surpassing any low-level language in their area with respect to completeness and importance as exchange format (e.g. OpenCL for data-parallel computing, GLSL/HLSL for shader programs, JavaScript for the web). The code representations of many actively-developed compiler frameworks [JVM,LLVM,FIRM] are designed for generating low-level machine code. They do, however, offer a broad range of language front-ends and program optimizations. In the scope of this thesis, we implemented a backend that decompiles the intermediate representation (IR) of the Low-Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) framework into a high-level code representation. The approach taken preserves functional program semantics and uses program transformations such as Controlled Node Splitting to restructure arbitrary Control-Flow Graphs. We implemented backends for both OpenCL and GLSL programs, that can decompile LLVM-Bitcode with some constraints (mostly due to unsupported data-types). The final evaluation shows that the performance of decompiled OpenCL matches that of reference OpenCL programs in most cases.
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