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Unicorn CPU emulator framework (ARM, AArch64, M68K, Mips, Sparc, PowerPC, RiscV, S390x, TriCore, X86)

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Unicorn Engine
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Unicorn is a lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework, based on QEMU.

Unicorn offers some unparalleled features:

- Multi-architecture: ARM, ARM64 (ARMv8), M68K, MIPS, PowerPC, RISCV, SPARC, S390X, TriCore and X86 (16, 32, 64-bit)
- Clean/simple/lightweight/intuitive architecture-neutral API
- Implemented in pure C language, with bindings for Crystal, Clojure, Visual Basic, Perl, Rust, Ruby, Python, Java, .NET, Go, Delphi/Free Pascal, Haskell, Pharo, Lua and Zig.
- Native support for Windows & nix (with Mac OSX, Linux, Android, BSD & Solaris confirmed)
- High performance via Just-In-Time compilation
- Support for fine-grained instrumentation at various levels
- Thread-safety by design
- Distributed under free software license GPLv2

Further information is available at http://www.unicorn-engine.org


License
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This project is released under the GPL license.


Compilation & Docs
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See docs/COMPILE.md file for how to compile and install Unicorn.

More documentation is available in docs/README.md.

For common questions, read docs/FAQ.md before raising an issue.

Contact
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Contribute
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If you want to contribute, please pick up something from our Github issues.

We also maintain a list of more challenged problems in milestones for our regular release.

Please send pull request to our dev branch.

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