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Wuzadolast Sunday at 10:19 AM1 replyview on HN

Sometimes you may need to deal with odd proprietary processors with limited and flawed knowledge about them.

For example, in the 37c3 talk "Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains" by the folks from Dragon Sector (I highly recommend watching it), they needed to reverse-engineer Tricore binaries, however they found the Ghidra implementation had bugs.

As for the PLCs, the IEC 61131-3 functional block diagrams transpile to C code which then compiles to Tricore binaries using an obscure GCC fork. Not saying that anyone would want to write Rust code for PLCs, but this is not uncommon in the world of embedded.


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mistrial9last Sunday at 7:11 PM

.. there is some humor in the string

"Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains"

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