Oh, cool. This is the first time I've encountered anyone else mentioning hand decompilation of x86-64 instructions. I spent some time doing that with small bina

Oh, cool. This is the first time I've encountered anyone else mentioning hand decompilation of x86-64 instructions. I spent some time doing that with small binaries a while back. The original motivation was SmithForth[0]. For those interested in this kind of thing, here are some useful resources I've stumbled upon: - x86 Instruction and Opcode Reference: http://ref.x86asm.net/ http://ref.x86asm.net/ Probably the best reference for navigating opcodes. It's extreme detail gives a good sense of x86 ISA nuances. - Intel XED: https://intelxed.github.io/ https://intelxed.github.io/ An library and CLI tool for encoding and decoding instructions between hex and their mnemonics. This tool gave me a fun side quest, sending upstream a patch to make the build reproducible. - Intel Software Developer Manuals It takes a little bit of time to get into the groove with these, but the first chapters of each volume contain excellent high-level explanations of the different moving pieces in modern x86 chips. - Agner Fog's optimization resources: https://www.agner.org/optimize/ https://www.agner.org/optimize/ Excellent resource for going beyond the ISA and understanding microarchitectural details. Anyway, I'm still quite green, but if anyone's interested in chatting about this kind of thing, feel free to ping me. Email should be in my profile description. [0]:https://dacvs.neocities.org/SF/ https://dacvs.neocities.org/SF/