unarm

Parser for the ARM instruction set, inspired by powerpc-rs. It currently supports the following versions:

• ARMv4
• ARMv4T
• ARMv5T
• ARMv5TE
• ARMv5TEJ
• ARMv6
• ARMv6K

It also supports these extensions:

• VFPv2

Contents

• About
• Performance
• Usage
  • Parsing one instruction
  • 4-byte Thumb instructions
  • The FormatIns trait

About

• Most of the parser is generated from isa.yaml by the /generator/ module.
• It accepts all 2^32 possible ARM instructions and 2^16 Thumb instructions (plus the 4-byte instructions) without errors.
• No promises that the output is 100% correct.
  • Some illegal instructions may not be parsed as illegal.
  • Some instructions may not stringify correctly.
  • (more, probably)

Performance

Tested on all 2^32 ARM and Thumb instructions in ARMv6K using the /fuzz/ module on a single thread.

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X:

Usage

Parsing one instruction

use unarm::*;

let pc = 0;
let options = Options::default();
let ins = parse_arm(0xe5902268, pc, &options);
assert_eq!(
    ins,
    Ins::Ldr {
        cond: Cond::Al,
        rd: Reg::R2,
        addr: AddrLdrStr::Pre {
            rn: Reg::R0,
            offset: LdrStrOffset::Imm(0x268),
            writeback: false
        }
    }
);
assert_eq!(ins.display(&options).to_string(), "ldr r2, [r0, #0x268]");

4-byte Thumb instructions

Some instructions in Thumb are 4 bytes long instead of 2. To parse them properly, put the second half of the instruction in the upper half of the code passed to parse_thumb.

let first = 0xf099;
let second = 0xe866;
let (ins, _size) = parse_thumb(first | (second << 16), 0, &options);

You can do this for 2-byte instructions as well by passing two consecutive instructions in the same way. parse_thumb returns both the parsed instruction and its size, so you can tell if only one or both of the 16-bit words were parsed.

The FormatIns trait

The FormatIns trait is used for formatting an instruction. You can implement this trait yourself to customize the formatted output. Here is an example:

pub struct MyFormatter {
    options: unarm::Options,
}

// Write is a supertrait of FormatIns
impl std::fmt::Write for MyFormatter {
    fn write_str(&mut self, s: &str) -> std::fmt::Result {
        println!("{s}");
        Ok(())
    }
}

impl unarm::FormatIns for MyFormatter {
    fn options(&self) -> &unarm::Options {
        &self.options
    }

    // Override the default behavior
    fn write_reg(&mut self, reg: unarm::Reg) -> core::fmt::Result {
        // Add custom behavior here
        self.write_str("REG:")?;
        reg.write(self)
    }

    // Override any other trait functions as needed
}

let mut formatter = MyFormatter { options: Default::default() };
let ins = parse_arm(0xe5902268, 0, &formatter.options);
formatter.write_ins(&ins).unwrap();