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• dyninstAPI: x86_64 1- and 2-byte stores from r8-r15 store the wrong register

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  dyninst/dyninst#2605 · Opened Nov 8, 2026

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• dyninstAPI: x86_64 constant store to a 1- or 2-byte global writes 4 bytes

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  dyninst/dyninst#2604 · Opened Nov 8, 2026

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• dyninstAPI: a store to a variable with no type silently writes 4 bytes

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  dyninst/dyninst#2603 · Opened Nov 8, 2026

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• symtabAPI: with LTO, parameters and locals are dropped because DW_AT_decl_file is read from the wrong unit's file table

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  dyninst/dyninst#2602 · Opened Nov 8, 2026

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• symtabAPI: C++ reference types have size 0

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  dyninst/dyninst#2601 · Opened Nov 8, 2026

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• symtabAPI: optimized-code location operations (entry_value, implicit_pointer, implicit_value, convert, GNU_parameter_ref) drop variable locations

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  dyninst/dyninst#2599 · Opened Nov 8, 2026

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• symtabAPI: thread-local variables lose their DWARF type and location

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  dyninst/dyninst#2600 · Opened Nov 8, 2026

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• symtabAPI: read dynamic relocations from the .dynamic ranges, not through section headers

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  ELF enhancement Symtab

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  dyninst/dyninst#2589 · Opened Nov 5, 2026

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• Rewriting riscv64/dyn crashes: the rewriter's new segment shares a page with the original read-write segment

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  dyninst/dyninst#2584 · Opened Nov 5, 2026

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• symtabAPI: types in DWARF type units take their file names from the wrong unit

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  bug DWARF Symtab

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  dyninst/dyninst#2576 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 3, 2026

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• symtabAPI: resolve struct, union and class declarations to their definitions

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  DWARF enhancement Symtab

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  dyninst/dyninst#2570 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 30, 2026

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• dataflowAPI: StackAnalysis takes its entry state and call ABI from the build, not from the analyzed code

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  dyninst/dyninst#2564 · Opened Oct 30, 2026

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• dataflowAPI: ARM64 semantics give memory addresses a width of 0

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  dyninst/dyninst#2561 · Opened Oct 30, 2026

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• DwarfFrameParser leaks a Dwarf_Frame on every lookup, and a Dwarf_Op array on expression rules

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  dyninst/dyninst#2548 · Opened Oct 27, 2026

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• getRegAtFrame calls libdw's CFI functions without cfi_lock

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  dyninst/dyninst#2549 · Opened Oct 27, 2026

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• getRegAtFrame reads a register with an undefined CFI rule as same-value

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  dyninst/dyninst#2547 · Opened Oct 27, 2026

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• An undefined return address ends the stack walk only on AArch64 through DwarfFrameParser

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  dyninst/dyninst#2545 · Opened Oct 27, 2026

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• getRegAtFrame doesn't check what convert_abstract returns

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  dyninst/dyninst#2546 · Opened Oct 27, 2026

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• symtabAPI: same-named DWARF type units make findType nondeterministic

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  bug DWARF Symtab

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  dyninst/dyninst#2544 · Opened Oct 27, 2026

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• AMDGPU decoder misses some implicit M0 reads

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  dyninst/dyninst#2542 · Opened Oct 27, 2026

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• symtabAPI: std::bad_cast in parseMember and SIGSEGV in InlinedFunction::setFile during a parallel DWARF parse

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  BPatch bug DWARF Symtab

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  dyninst/dyninst#2541 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 27, 2026

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• aarch64: 32-bit writes not zero-extended into X registers; no semantics for EXTR/ROR (immediate)

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  dyninst/dyninst#2524 · Opened Oct 24, 2026

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• aarch64: Instruction::format() drops pre-index offsets and '!', prints literal offsets as bare hex

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  dyninst/dyninst#2523 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 24, 2026

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• aarch64: no ROSE semantics for LDTRSW and the exclusive loads/stores

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  dyninst/dyninst#2522 · Opened Oct 24, 2026

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• SymEval::expand reports success when the instruction semantics fail

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  dyninst/dyninst#2521 · Opened Oct 24, 2026

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• aarch64: emulated single-step plants its breakpoint at the signed (PAC) value of a pointer-auth branch target

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  Aarch64 bug proccontrol

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  dyninst/dyninst#2519 · Opened Oct 22, 2026

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• cmake: find_package(Dyninst) fails with static libraries or LIGHTWEIGHT_SYMTAB

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  bug build

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  dyninst/dyninst#2518 · Opened Oct 22, 2026

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• aarch64: third-party stack walks lose or skip frames when the top function is a leaf or has no frame pointer

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  Aarch64 BPatch bug stackwalker

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  dyninst/dyninst#2514 · Opened Oct 21, 2026

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• DwarfFrameParser's global cache holds non-owning Dwarf/Elf handles and is never evicted

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  dyninst/dyninst#2435 · Opened Oct 1, 2026

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• Update decoding aarch64 system registers

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  Aarch64 bug instructionAPI

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  dyninst/dyninst#2432 · Opened Sep 30, 2026

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• What should a runtime DW_AT_lower_bound be reported as?

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  dyninst/dyninst#2420 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 25, 2026

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• OpenMP regions inherit a team size equal to the CPU count, which is libgomp's worst case (12 ms per region, 60x on static rewriting)

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  dyninst/dyninst#2403 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 22, 2026

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• Enhance RoseAST simplification

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  bug parseAPI

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  dyninst/dyninst#2385 · Opened Sep 8, 2026

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• docker: pe-parse installs to /usr/lib on lib64 distros (fedora/RHEL), off the default loader path

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  dyninst/dyninst#2380 · Opened Aug 20, 2026

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• [v13.0+master] AArch64 stack-walking hang / infinite loop when processing an undefined return address?

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  Aarch64 stackwalker user-reported

  dyninst/dyninst#2378 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 19, 2026

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• emitRestoreFlagsFromStackSlot restores a corrupted RFLAGS image (x86-64)

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  dyninst/dyninst#2369 · Opened Aug 12, 2026

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• Potential violation of strict weak ordering in ProcessSet.h

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  question

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  dyninst/dyninst#2260 · 2 comments · Opened May 18, 2026

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• [AMDGPU] Incorrect Module Mapping when Compiled with Debug Option

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  dyninst/dyninst#2252 · Opened May 13, 2026

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• [dyninstAPI] Implement `BPatch_mod`

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  BPatch bug dyninstAPI

  dyninst/dyninst#2206 · 1 comment · 3 assignees · Opened Apr 10, 2026

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• Possible ELF corruption when rewriting statically-linked binaries

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  bug ELF Symtab

  dyninst/dyninst#2202 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 8, 2026

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• bool BinaryEdit::replaceTrapHandler(): Assertion `repfunc' failed.

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  bug dyninstAPI user-reported

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  dyninst/dyninst#2201 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 7, 2026

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• DynInst examples fail on some SpecCPU 2017 benchmarks

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  dyninst/dyninst#2155 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 18, 2026

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• Clean up IndirectControlFlowAnalyzer::FindJunkInstruction

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  bug code cleanup parseAPI

  dyninst/dyninst#2118 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 23, 2026

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• How to inject external functions into existing binary?

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  question

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  dyninst/dyninst#2083 · 20 comments · Opened Dec 24, 2025

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• parseapi misses noreturn function

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  dyninst/dyninst#2043 · 10 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 27, 2025

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• Incorrectly handling of ELF RELA relocations in GOT

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  ELF Symtab

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  dyninst/dyninst#2016 · Opened Sep 27, 2025

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• Clean up the capability system in Dyninst

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  dyninst/dyninst#2011 · Opened Sep 26, 2025

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• Correct handling of ExpressionConversionVisitor and others for MultiRegisterAST

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  AMDGPU

  dyninst/dyninst#1964 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 22, 2025

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• Update PowerPC thunk detection for PLT stubs

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  bug parseAPI PowerPC

  dyninst/dyninst#1945 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 1, 2025

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• Support for Windows .obj/.o files

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  dyninst/dyninst#1925 · Opened Mar 14, 2025

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