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GPL-2.0

bic: A C interpreter and API explorer

This a project that allows developers to explore and test C-APIs using a read eval print loop, also known as a REPL.

doc/img/hello-world.gif

Dependencies

BIC’s run-time dependencies are as follows:

To build BIC, you’ll need:

Please ensure you have these installed before building bic. The following command should install these on a Debian/Ubuntu system:

apt-get install build-essential libreadline-dev autoconf-archive libgmp-dev expect flex bison automake m4 libtool pkg-config

Installation

You can compile and install bic with the following commands:

autoreconf -i
./configure --enable-debug
make
make install

Usage

REPL

When invoking bic with no arguments the user is presented with a REPL prompt:

BIC>

Here you can type C statements and #include various system headers to provide access to different APIs on the system. One thing to note is that statements can be entered directly into the REPL; there is no need to define a function for them to be evaluated. Say we wish to execute the following C program:

 #include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    FILE *f = fopen("out.txt", "w");
    fputs("Hello, world!\n", f);
    return 0;
}

We can do this on the REPL with BIC using the following commands:

BIC> #include <stdio.h>
BIC> FILE *f;
f
BIC> f = fopen("test.txt", "w");
BIC> fputs("Hello, World!\n", f);
1
BIC>

This will cause bic to call out to the C-library fopen() and fputs() functions to create a file and write the hello world string into it. If you now exit bic, you should see a file test.txt in the current working directory with the string Hello, World\n contained within it.

Notice that after evaluating an expression bic will print the result of evaluation. This can be useful for testing out simple expressions:

BIC> 2 * 8 + fileno(f);
19

Evaluating Files

If you pass bic a source file as a command line argument it will evaluate it, by calling a main() function. For example, suppose we have the file test.c that contains the following:

int printf(const char *s, ...);

int factorial(int n)
{
  if (!n)
  {
    return 1;
  }

  return n * factorial(n - 1);
}

int main()
{
  printf("Factorial of 4 is: %d\n", factorial(4));

  return 0;
}

We can then invoke bic with test.c as a parameter to evaluate it:

doc/img/eval-file.gif

You can also use a special expression: <REPL>; in your source code to make bic drop you into the repl at a particular point in the file evaluation:

doc/img/repl-interrupt.gif

Exploring external libraries with the REPL

You can use bic to explore the APIs of other libraries other than libc. Let’s suppose we wish to explore the Capstone library, we pass in a -l option to make bic load that library when it starts. For example:

doc/img/capstone.gif

Notice that when bic prints a compound data type (a struct or a union), it shows all member names and their corresponding values.

Implementation Overview

Tree Objects

At the heart of bic’s implementation is the tree object. These are generic objects that can be used to represent an entire program as well as the current evaluator state. It is implemented in tree.h and tree.c. Each tree type is defined in c.lang. The c.lang file is a lisp-like specification of:

  • Object name, for example T_ADD.
  • A human readable name, such as ~”Addition”~.
  • A property name prefix, such as tADD.
  • A list of properties for this type, such as ~”LHS”~ and ~”RHS”~.

The code to create an object with the above set of attributes would be:

(deftype T_ADD "Addition" "tADD"
         ("LHS" "RHS"))

Once defined, we can use this object in our C code in the following way:

tree make_increment(tree number)
{
    tree add = tree_make(T_ADD);

    tADD_LHS(add) = number;
    tADD_RHS(add) = tree_make_const_int(1);

    return add;
}

Notice that a set of accessor macros, tADD_LHS() and tADD_RHS(), have been generated for us to access the different property slots. When --enable-debug is set during compilation each one of these macros expands to a check to ensure that when setting the tADD_LHS property of an object that the object is indeed an instance of a T_ADD.

The c.lang file is read by numerous source-to-source compilers that generate code snippets. These utilities include:

  • gentype: Generates a list of tree object types.
  • gentree: Generates a structure that contains all the property data for tree objects.
  • genctypes: Generates a list of C-Type tree objects - these represent the fundamental data types in C.
  • genaccess: Generate accessor macros for tree object properties.
  • gengc: Generate a mark function for each tree object, this allows the garbage collector to traverse object trees.
  • gendump: Generate code to dump out tree objects recursively.

Evaluator

The output of the lexer & parser is a tree object hierarchy which is then passed into the evaluator (evaluator.c). The evaluator will then recursively evaluate each tree element, updating internal evaluator state, thereby executing a program.

Calls to functions external to the evaluator are handled in a platform-dependent way. Currently x86_64 and aarch64 are the only supported platforms and the code to handle this is in the x86_64 and aarch64 folders respectively. This works by taking a function call tree object (represented by a T_FN_CALL) from the evaluator with all arguments evaluated and marshalling them into a simple linked-list. This is then traversed in assembly to move the value into the correct register according to the x86_64 or aarch64 calling-conventions and then branching to the function address.

Parser & Lexer

The parser and lexer are implemented in parser.m4 and lex.m4 respectively. After passing through M4 the output is two bison parsers and two flex lexers.

The reason for two parsers is that the grammar for a C REPL is very different than that of a C file. For example, we want the user to be able to type in statements to be evaluated on the REPL without the need for wrapping them in a function. Unfortunately writing a statement that is outside a function body isn’t valid C. As such, we don’t want the user to be able to write bare statements in a C file. To achieve this we have two different set of grammar rules which produces two parsers. Most of the grammar rules do overlap and therefore we use a single M4 file to take care of the differences.

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