Contents

• Contents
• List of Figures
• Introduction
• Background
  • The 80x86 Processor Family
  • Approaches to Processor Simulation
  • Simulating the x86 Architecture
    • Simx86
    • Sim286
  • The Executable and Linking Format (ELF)
    • The ELF File Format
    • ELF Data Representation
• The Implementation of Sim386
  • Extending the design of Sim286
  • Adding 32-bit processing
    • Adding additional addressing modes and the SIB byte
    • Modifying and extending the instruction set
    • Modifying the registers, segments, and descriptors
  • Adding ELF binary Input
    • Parsing an ELF executable
    • Executing main and printf
• Performance of Sim386
• Future Work
  • Approaches for Improving the Design of Sim386
  • Dynamic Linking with ELF Object Files
• Concluding Remarks
• Bibliography