ELC Disassembler

elcd is a small disassembler for Emacs Lisp byte-compiled files.

Usage

Pass the byte-compiled file as an argument

$ ./elcd my-byte-compiled-file.elc

elcd can also read from its standard input:

$ echo '(nothing)' | ./elcd

Building

List of compilation dependencies:

• gcc
• bison
• flex
• perl
• wget

To build elcd, just run make.

Implementation notes

A part of elcd is generated from Emacs's source code. A small perl script parses src/bytecode.c and compiles useful information to an opcode table in opcode.c. See mk_opcode.pl.

elcd implements a reader for a large subset of Emacs Lisp. See lex.l and parse.y for the lexer and grammar definitions.