https://miscreants.github.io/blog.trailofbits.com/authors/akshay-kumar/Recent content in Akshay Kumar on The Trail of Bits BlogHugoen-usMon, 21 Jan 2019 07:50:27 -0500https://miscreants.github.io/blog.trailofbits.com/2019/01/21/how-mcsema-handles-c-exceptions/Mon, 21 Jan 2019 07:50:27 -0500https://miscreants.github.io/blog.trailofbits.com/2019/01/21/how-mcsema-handles-c-exceptions/C++ programs using exceptions are problematic for binary lifters. The non-local control-flow “throw” and “catch” operations that appear in C++ source code do not map neatly to straightforward binary representations. One could allege that the compiler, runtime, and stack unwinding library collude to make exceptions work. We recently completed our investigation into exceptions and can […]