decode

A Lua/Python Bytecode Disassembler. It is in the very early stages of development. The Lua Disassembler could be called functional, a typical listing it provides you with would look like this:

$ bin/decode test/hello.luac
File has 'luac' ending, assuming lua bytecode.

; Disassembly of file: test/hello.luac
; Endianness: little endian
; Int size: 4
; Size_t size: 8
; Instruction size: 4
; lua_Number size: 8

; Source file name: hello.lua
; Line defined: 0
; Last Line defined: 0
; Number of Upvalues: 0
; Number of Parameters: 0
; Vararg flag: 2
; Maximum stack size: 2

; Constants: (Size 2)
; Line	Type	Value
; -------------------
0000	STRING: print
0001	STRING: hello world and lua

; Function prototypes list(Size 0): {
; }

; Opcodes (Size 4): 
; Line	Opcode		       A	|	       B	|	       C
; -------------------------------------------------
  0001	GETGLOBAL	       0	|	       0	|
  0001	LOADK   	       1	|	       1	|
  0001	CALL    	       0	|	       2	|	       1
  0001	RETURN  	       0	|	       1	|


; End of binary information.

The code looks like it just came out of a cows' behind, so beware.

Why another disassembler?

This disassembler is written purely in C, so it may well be faster than lad, ChunkySpy, dis et al. Also, it does not depend on any external libraries. You can use it even without having Lua or Python installed. Yay, right?

TODO

• Parse Python (only header is parsed until now, then the output is mostly garbage)