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This patch introduces the concept of shadow bits. For every byte of memory there is a corresponding shadow byte that contains metadata about that memory. Initially, the only metadata is whether the byte has been initialized or not. That's represented by the least significant shadow bit. Shadow bits travel together with regular values throughout the entire CPU and MMU emulation. There are two main helper classes to facilitate this: ValueWithShadow and ValueAndShadowReference. ValueWithShadow<T> is basically a struct { T value; T shadow; } whereas ValueAndShadowReference<T> is struct { T& value; T& shadow; }. The latter is used as a wrapper around general-purpose registers, since they can't use the plain ValueWithShadow memory as we need to be able to address individual 8-bit and 16-bit subregisters (EAX, AX, AL, AH.) Whenever a computation is made using uninitialized inputs, the result is tainted and becomes uninitialized as well. This allows us to track this state as it propagates throughout memory and registers. This patch doesn't yet keep track of tainted flags, that will be an important upcoming improvement to this. I'm sure I've messed up some things here and there, but it seems to basically work, so we have a place to start! :^) |
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