Executing code

With the execute command you can make a program execute your code. You can either provide assembly instructions that will then get assembled into bytecode or you can provide the bytecode yourself, maybe hand-written or assembled by your favorite assembler.
If you wanted to execute instructions from an assembly file on a program whose PID is 12345, the command would look like this:

$ proctal execute --pid=12345 < code.asm

The given instructions will be embedded at some place in memory and executed in a new stack frame in the context of the main thread. The other threads will be paused. Your code is free to modify any registers because they will be restored to their original values. Control will be given back to the program after the last instruction is executed.
The instructions cannot rely on where they will be placed in memory.
The instructions are expected to be separated by new lines. The ; character can be used to start a comment that spans to the end of the line.
The --architecture option allows you to set the CPU architecture. By default it's the same architecture that the tool was compiled in. At the moment the available values are x86, x86-64, arm, sparc, powerpc and mips.
The --endianness options allows you to set the endianness of the instructions. This can be little or big. By default the endianness of your system is used if support.
The --x86-syntax option allows you to change the syntax for x86 assembly. By default it's set to intel. You can switch to att if you prefer.
The --x86-mode option lets you set whether to work with the 16-bit, 32-bit or 64-bit versions of the x86 instruction set.
The --arm-mode option lets you choose between a32, t32 and a64.
The --sparc-mode option lets you choose between 32 and 64.
The --powerpc-mode option lets you choose between 32, 64.
The --mips-mode option lets you choose between 32 and 64.
You can execute bytecode by passing the --format option with the value bytecode.
Here's how you would execute bytecode from a binary file:

$ proctal execute --pid=12345 --format=bytecode < code.bin