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majke on Dec 17, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Intel X86 Encoder Decoder

This is awesome. I thought it's closed source. I wonder how close it is to the hardware.

Can I assume that whatever is parsed by XED is going to be parsed in the same way by real CPU's?

mjcharney on Dec 18, 2016 [–]

XED author here...

That's one goal certainly. Not claiming it is perfect. I have been working on it a long time and many cycles have been run on it between Pin, Intel SDE and some internal simulators that boot OSes, etc.

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