cases16-benchmarks

Benchmark suite used in our paper 'Speculative Disassembly of Binary Code' which was accepted for CASES'16. Folder structure is as follows:

• Coremark Pro - benchmarks were compiled using arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-5.1.
• Coreutils - benchmarks were compiled using arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc-4.8.

Both benchmark suites were compiled with optimization level -O3. Binaries contain symbol information. You might want to try spedi on a stripped version of the binaries.

Usage

To easily reproduce our results you need to compile Spedi and feed it a binary. The following command will instruct spedito speculatively disassemble the .text ELF section,

$ ./spedi -t -s -f $FILE > speculative.inst

Use the following command to instruct spedi to disassemble the .text section based on ARM code mapping symbols which provides the ground truth about correct instructions,

$ ./spedi -t -f $FILE > correct.inst

The easiest way to compare both outputs is by using,

$ diff -y correct.inst speculative.inst |less

License

Public domain.