Reverse-engineering Rosetta 2 Part 1: Analyzing AoT files and the runtime

Re:Reverse-engineering Rosetta 2 Part 1: Analyzing AoT files... by joshstrange on Thursday March 04, 2021 @06:58PM (#26350309)

This isn't something I would be even remotely capable of doing myself and I probably don't understand the vast majority of what they are talking about but I absolutely love that this exists and there are people who enjoy digging into and doing a nice write up about it.

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Re:Reverse-engineering Rosetta 2 Part 1: Analyzing AoT files... by brokenmachine on Friday March 05, 2021 @12:37AM (#26353182)

Yeah, I've been interested in learning assembly/reverse engineering/ghidra at some stage, but reading stuff like this by people who understand what a computer's doing to this level makes me despair for my own lack of knowledge.

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Re:Reverse-engineering Rosetta 2 Part 1: Analyzing AoT files... by jml7c5 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @08:04PM (#26351008)

You can always learn! You're just a few books away from the knowledge.

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Re:Reverse-engineering Rosetta 2 Part 1: Analyzing AoT files... by faitswulff on Thursday March 04, 2021 @09:18PM (#26351673)

Which books?

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Re:Reverse-engineering Rosetta 2 Part 1: Analyzing AoT files... by mhh__ on Thursday March 04, 2021 @09:27PM (#26351753)

I think the raw reverse engineering knowhow generally comes from reading and writing low level code and reverse engineering other people's.

Atop of that you also need understanding of computer architecture, for which I vaguely recommend Hen.&Pat. but again you get this knowledge by playing around mainly.

A bit of compiler design would help too if you want to write one of these - Engineering a compiler is a good one.

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Re:Reverse-engineering Rosetta 2 Part 1: Analyzing AoT files... by msie on Thursday March 04, 2021 @10:40PM (#26352327)

I hope those same people are looking into the M1 SSD mystery.

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Re:Reverse-engineering Rosetta 2 Part 1: Analyzing AoT files... by kirugan on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:32PM (#26362395)

What mystery?

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