README

Capstone is a disassembly framework with the target of becoming the ultimate
disasm engine for binary analysis and reversing in the security community.

Created by Nguyen Anh Quynh, then developed and maintained by a small community,
Capstone offers some unparalleled features:

- Support multiple hardware architectures: ARM, ARM64 (ARMv8), Mips, PPC, Sparc,
  SystemZ, XCore and X86 (including X86_64).

- Having clean/simple/lightweight/intuitive architecture-neutral API.

- Provide details on disassembled instruction (called “decomposer” by others).

- Provide semantics of the disassembled instruction, such as list of implicit
  registers read & written.

- Implemented in pure C language, with lightweight wrappers for C++, C#, Go,
  Java, Lua, NodeJS, Ocaml, Python, Ruby, Rust & Vala ready (available in
  main code, or provided externally by the community).

- Native support for all popular platforms: Windows, Mac OSX, iOS, Android,
  Linux, *BSD, Solaris, etc.

- Thread-safe by design.

- Special support for embedding into firmware or OS kernel.

- High performance & suitable for malware analysis (capable of handling various
  X86 malware tricks).

- Distributed under the open source BSD license.

Further information is available at http://www.capstone-engine.org


[Compile]

See COMPILE.TXT file for how to compile and install Capstone.


[Documentation]

See docs/README for how to customize & program your own tools with Capstone.


[Hack]

See HACK.TXT file for the structure of the source code.


[License]

This project is released under the BSD license. If you redistribute the binary
or source code of Capstone, please attach file LICENSE.TXT with your products.