This is a simple C program that will determine whether your environment is running under a binary translation layer. This is a type of software emulation that "translates" a different instruction set architecture for a different one in real time. For example, Microsoft XTA translates x86 code into ARM code.
This is mainly meant as just a fun and experimental program that I've developed while working on VMAware, a VM detection library. VMAware originally added binary translators as a detectable VM brand, but my co-developer (@NotRequiem) convinced me to ditch that idea as it was out of the scope of the project.
So instead of just deleting them, I'm adding them in this separate repository as I figured it was interesting enough to have it published as a gimmicky and stupidly simple C side project for the sake of demonstrating that this is possible as a proof of concept.
Does this have any practical implications? Absolutely fucking not. But hey, it's kinda cool (maybe, idk). Anyways, this is just a publish-and-dump kind of thing, so it'll barely be improved or worked on in the future.
For now, the program can detect 4 brands:
- Apple Rosetta
- Microsoft x86-to-ARM (also known as Microsoft XTA)
- Microsoft Prism
- PowerVM Lx86