reven2.types

package documentation

Contains classes and instances related to the description of data types.

The primary use of the classes in this module is to build the type argument ty to the reven2.trace.Context.read and reven2.trace.Context.deref methods, that allow to read a register or part of the memory as a specific data type. For more information on reading as type, please refer to the documentation of the reven2.trace.Context.read method.

This package mainly defines primitive types (such as Bool, F32, U64) as well as type constructors, e.g. classes whose instances are a type, and named, user-defined types constructors such as Structs or Enumerations.

It also provides instance types, such as StructInstance, that represent the result of reading certain types.

Primitives

Bool is the boolean type.
U8, U16, U32, U64, U128 are unsigned integers of respective size 8, 16, 32 and 64 bits, in the native x86_64 endianness
I8, I16, I32, I64 and I128 for signed integers
USize and ISize for (un)signed integers whose size is the same as an address. When using context.read(address, USize), the actual length of the read will depend on whether the context is in 64 or in 32 bits mode.
F16, F32 and F64 are 16, 32 and 64 bits floating point numbers.

Type constructors

FixedWidthInteger allows to build any size of integers.
LittleEndian and BigEndian accept an integer type as a parameter, and forces its endianness to little or big.
Pointer takes a type T as a parameter, and returns type "pointer to T" (T* in C speak). Its main use is with the reven2.trace.Context.deref method.
Array takes a type T and a count as parameters, and returns the type describing a contiguous array of T. T ([T; n]).
RawBuffer is a specialized version of Array on bytes.
CString accepts a maximum count N, and return the type that designates "NUL-terminated strings of a maximum size N"

User-defined named type constructors

Struct represents a user-defined, named struct, class or union.
Enumeration represents a user-defined, named enumeration.

Instance types

StructInstance represents the result of reading a Struct at some context.
EnumerationInstance represents the result of reading an Enumeration at some context.
ArrayInstance represents the result of reading an Array at some context.
PointerInstance represents the result of reading a Pointer at some context. Note that, for backcompatibility concerns, ctx.read(src, pointer) currently returns an address rather than a PointerInstance.

Special types

ErrorType represents a type that couldn't be built for some reason, stored in its ErrorType.message method.
VoidType represents any opaque type that can be stored behind a level of indirection.

Context

Some Type methods accept a context parameter (that defaults to None).

This parameter represents the current context of execution, and should generally be of type reven2.trace.Context.

This parameter is necessary, because the size and value of certain types may depend on the context of execution. For instance, a Pointer is 8 bytes in a 64 bits context, and 4 bytes in a 32 bits context (if its size argument was not specified).

Generally, users of the API should not have to provide explicit values for the context parameter, as the methods of Type objects will be called by the context instance itself rather than directly by the user.

Some types are context-insensitive. This means that their properties will not be affected by the context value passed to the various methods of the type. For context-insensitive types, the is_context_sensitive method will return False, and you can pass any object as context parameter (even None).

Module	`_array`	This module provides the `Array` type.
Module	`_declaration`	This module provides several types that represent unresolved types, such as type forward declarations in C.
Module	`_enum`	This module provides the `Enumeration` type and associated types.
Module	`_error`	This module provides the `ErrorType` type and associated types.
Module	`_instance`	This module provides the various instance types that represents the result of reading certain types, such as a `Struct`.
Module	`_integer`	Provides the `Integer` types and type constructors operating on integers such as `BigEndian` as well as the `Endianness` and `Signedness` enums.
Module	`_pointer`	This modules contains the `Pointer` type.
Module	`_primitive`	This module defines the primitive types manipulated by the API.
Module	`_string`	The module defining the `CString` type and the `Encoding` enum describing the available encodings.
Module	`_struct`	The module defining the `Struct` type and related types.
Module	`_type`	Module defining the `Type` class.
Module	`_typeinfo`	Undocumented
Module	`_void`	The module containing the void type and its associated error type.