An Efficient Platform for the Automatic Extraction of Patterns in Native Code

Algorithm 7

Pattern generalization rule of move instructions.

Function  MOVE_generalization⁢(instruction)

 if  .mnemonic in  [mov, movzx, movsd, movss, movsx]

      and  .operands.type = register

      and  .operands.value in [eax, ax, ah, al]  then

  .mnemonic    <mov>

  .operands.value    <generic ax>

  .operands.value    <any>

 end if

 return  ( , next(instruction))

end