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This adds an initial pac-ret gadget scanner to the llvm-bolt-binary-analysis-tool. The scanner is taken from the prototype that was published last year at https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/compare/main...kbeyls:llvm-project:bolt-gadget-scanner-prototype, and has been discussed in RFC https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-bolt-based-binary-analysis-tool-to-verify-correctness-of-security-hardening/78148 and in the EuroLLVM 2024 keynote "Does LLVM implement security hardenings correctly? A BOLT-based static analyzer to the rescue?" [Video](https://youtu.be/Sn_Fxa0tdpY) [Slides](https://llvm.org/devmtg/2024-04/slides/Keynote/Beyls_EuroLLVM2024_security_hardening_keynote.pdf) In the spirit of incremental development, this PR aims to add a minimal implementation that is "fully working" on its own, but has major limitations, as described in the bolt/docs/BinaryAnalysis.md documentation in this proposed commit. These and other limitations will be fixed in follow-on PRs, mostly based on code already existing in the prototype branch. I hope incrementally upstreaming will make it easier to review the code. Note that I believe that this could also form the basis of a scanner to analyze correct implementation of PAuthABI.
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