Open Source C Disassemblers

The "Open On-Chip Debugger" provides JTAG/SWD access from GDB (or directly with TCL scripts) to processors with ARM and MIPS based cores. See website for full list of supported targets.

A disassembler for the linux platform. Currently this supports x86 ELF files assumed to be written in C and output to intel- syntax assembly language; however the design is modular and replacements for any of these can be written.

Creates highly optimized Animated PNG files from PNG/TGA image sequences. CLI versions available for all major OSes. GUI versions for Windows and macOS. Also, APNG Disassembler can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/apngdis

Capstone is a disassembly framework with the target of becoming the ultimate disasm engine for binary analysis and reversing in the security community. Created by Nguyen Anh Quynh, then developed and maintained by a small community, Capstone offers some unparalleled features. Support multiple hardware architectures: ARM, ARM64 (ARMv8), Ethereum VM, M68K, Mips, MOS65XX, PPC, Sparc, SystemZ, TMS320C64X, M680X, XCore and X86 (including X86_64). Having clean/simple/lightweight/intuitive architecture-neutral API. Provide details on disassembled instruction (called “decomposer” by others). Provide semantics of the disassembled instruction, such as list of implicit registers read & written. Implemented in pure C language, with lightweight bindings for D, Clojure, F#, Common Lisp, Visual Basic, PHP, PowerShell, Emacs, Haskell, Perl, Python, Ruby, C#, NodeJS, Java, GO, C++, OCaml, Lua, Rust, Delphi, Free Pascal & Vala (ready either in main code, or provided externally by the community).

REDasm is a cross platform disassembler and binary analysis tool, built for both hobbyists and professional reverse engineers. It supports various CPU architectures and executable formats and also offers an interactive listing, control flow graph view, cross-references, string detection and automatic function recovery. [SUPPORTED FILE FORMATS] PE, ELF, MZ, NE, LE, PSX-EXE, PSX-BIOS, XBE (Xbox), ZX Spectrum (SNA, Z80, TAP), iNES (mapper 0 only) [SUPPORTED ARCHITECTURES] x86/x86_64, ARM/THUMB, AArch64, Z80, MOS6502 [EXTRA FEATURES] VB5/6 Decompiler, MSVC RTTI and EH (EXPERIMENTAL) For detailed tier list of every feature see https://redasm.dev

BinExport is a disassembly export plugin developed by Google as part of the BinDiff ecosystem, designed for reverse engineering and binary analysis. It works with popular disassemblers including IDA Pro, Binary Ninja, and Ghidra, enabling the export of disassembly data into a structured Protocol Buffer format. This exported data can then be used for binary comparison, diffing, and advanced analysis tasks through BinDiff or other compatible tools. BinExport captures detailed information such as instructions, functions, control flow graphs, and metadata, providing a machine-readable representation of a program’s disassembled structure. It supports multiple export formats, including binary, text, and statistics outputs, and can be used interactively or via scripting (IDC, IDAPython, or Ghidra’s headless mode). The project includes complete build instructions for Linux, macOS, and Windows, ensuring reproducibility across platforms.

Binary (hexadecimal) editor for Windows

Udis86 is an easy-to-use minimalistic disassembler library for the x86 and x86-64 instruction set architectures. The primary intent of the design and development of udis86 is to aid software development projects that entail binary code analysis.

Zydis is a fast and lightweight disassembler library designed for decoding x86 and x86-64 machine code into human-readable assembly instructions. It focuses on performance and accuracy, making it suitable for applications such as reverse engineering, debugging, and binary analysis. The library provides detailed information about decoded instructions, including operands, prefixes, and instruction lengths, enabling deep inspection of executable code. It is designed to be easy to integrate, with a clean and minimal API that reduces complexity for developers. Zydis also emphasizes portability, allowing it to run across multiple platforms and environments. Its efficiency makes it particularly useful in scenarios where large volumes of code need to be analyzed quickly. Overall, zydis serves as a reliable and high-performance tool for understanding and working with machine-level instructions.

This is a general purpose machine code manipulation library for IA-32 and Intel 64 architectures. The library supports UNIX-like systems as well as Windows and is highly portable. The FCML library is free for commercial and non-commercial use as long as the terms of the LGPL license are met. Currently it supports such features as: - A one-line disassembler - A one-line assembler - An experimental multi-pass load-and-go assembler (Multi line!) - Support for the Intel and AT&T syntax - An instruction renderer - An instruction parser - Instructions represented as generic models - UNIX/GNU/Linux and Windows support - Portable - written entirely in C (no external dependencies) - C++ wrapper - Supported instruction sets: MMX, 3D-Now!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, AVX, AVX2, AES, TBM, BMI1, BMI2, HLE, ADX, CLMUL, RDRAND, RDSEED, FMA, FMA4, LWP, SVM, XOP, VMX, SMX, AVX-512 Source code moved to: https://github.com/swojtasiak/fcml-lib

An educational software system of a tiny self-compiling C compiler, a tiny self-executing RISC-V emulator, and a tiny self-hosting RISC-V hypervisor. Selfie is a project of the Computational Systems Group at the Department of Computer Sciences of the University of Salzburg in Austria. The Selfie Project provides an educational platform for teaching undergraduate and graduate students the design and implementation of programming languages and runtime systems. The focus is on the construction of compilers, libraries, operating systems, and even virtual machine monitors. The common theme is to identify and resolve self-reference in systems code which is seen as the key challenge when teaching systems engineering, hence the name. Selfie is implemented in a single (!) file and kept minimal for simplicity. There is also a simple in-memory linker, a RISC-U disassembler, a garbage collector, L1 instruction and data caches, a profiler, and a debugger with replay.

Tiny8051 is small 8051 microcontroller simulator written in C#. Project was created for educational purposes, to show how µP works by using clean visual interface and debugging. Note: communication over serial port was not implemented, because there was no demand for it.

BEYE (Binary EYE) is a free, portable, advanced file viewer with built-in editor for binary, hexadecimal and disassembler modes. It contains a highlight AVR/Java/i86-AMD64/ARM-XScale/PPC-64 and other disassembler, full preview of MZ,NE,PE,ELF and other.

VirtuAL3101 provides a series of tools to develop effects using the AL3101 DSP from Alesis. It includes an assembler/disassembler, a simulator, an application generator with its graphical interface and various effects.

Z80~Ex is the portable ZiLOG Z80 CPU emulator designed as a library. Goals include : precise opcode emulation (documented & undocumented), exact timings for each opcode (including I/O operations), multiple CPU contexts. disassembler is also included.

DiDasm is a small and fast disassembler, useful for Windows kernel developers. Advantages: - highly portable, has minimal runtime requirements (C runtime); - core libraries do not require any external components; - includes instructions emulator (diana_processor); - has stream oriented design; Supported platforms: i386, amd64 Supported instructions: x586/amd64/FPU/MMX/SSE/SSE2

lida is a fast feature packed interactive ELF disassembler / code-/cryptoanalyzer based on bastards libdisasm (see bastard project).

PED is a dumper for common binary executables, prividing disassembly information, resources, etc

asxa: Cross Assembler for NXP XA-51 Microcontrollers. Included is a monitor in XA assembly language with a disassembler a a debugger.

IMAVR is Atmel AVR 8-bit RISC chip emulator for UNIX. You can run your code before programming to chip. Embedded simple debugger and disassembler. Emulate wide range of AVR chip, wide range of their modules: EEPROM,USART, timers and so on.

lib5600x is a library implementing Motorola DSP5600x disassembler. It's an ANSI C link library that should be useful for people writing debuggers, memory monitors etc for DSP5600x chips.

"Motorola DSP56800 Tool Chain" is intended to create a complete development environment for the embedded digital signal processor family. Including assembler/disassembler, linker, archiver and light C compiler based on GNU binutils and gcc.

dxcut is a library for reading, editing, and writing dex and odex files which contain the class definition and Dalvik bytecode used by the Android operating system. This project includes a disassembler/decompiler, dex optimizer, and hooking utils.

PPCD is very accurate PowerPC ISA (and derivative processors) disassembler. Currently supported models are: Generic-32, Generic-64 and Gekko. PPCD is free opensource. You can use it in your applications without mention.

Java Decompiler, Disassembler and Bytecode debugger. Decompiler supports Java 5 (e.g. generics, for-each loops etc). Debugger allows user to step through each bytecode and view program state. Contains Swing GUI.