sjkim1127/decbench-cpp-qualification

DecBench C++ Qualification

An unofficial cross-platform C++ corpus for decompiler research, native debug-information inspection, and development of C++ evaluation methods.

The pilot contains 45 linked images from 10 unique projects, organized into 15 project × platform configurations, each built in three optimization modes. It includes GUI programs, a server, CLI tools, libraries, and userspace systems software.

Current status: packaging verified; full qualification and scoring pending. All 45 images are present, but the manifest deliberately reports qualified=false and scoring_ready=false for every image. This corpus has not been adopted as an official DecBench dataset, and this release does not report decompiler scores or rankings.

Download the published pilot

The data currently lives on the codex/qualification-v2-pilot-20261012 staging branch. The default branch provides this dataset card and retains the earlier qualification files.

For reproducible experiments, use this immutable data snapshot:

07dd95dbe6214b8a78fc1e4a55961ab515986489

• Browse the 45-image snapshot
• Manifest and file hashes
• Project revisions and target plan
• Build/import recipes and qualification contract

The snapshot's indexed payload is approximately 3.11 GB / 2.90 GiB, including debug information, source evidence, metadata, and isolated analysis inputs.

Platform coverage

Platform	Architecture	Image / debug format	Project × platform configurations	Linked images
Linux	AArch64 / arm64	ELF + DWARF	6	18
Windows	x86_64	PE + native MSVC PDB / CodeView	6	18
macOS	arm64	Mach-O + DWARF in dSYM	3	9
Total			15	45

The pilot has a 40% Linux / 40% Windows / 20% macOS configuration balance. Optimization variants are separate images, not separate projects.

Projects and selected linked targets

Platform	Project	Selected target	Program category
Linux	The Powder Toy	powder	GUI application
Linux	Snappy	libsnappy.so.1.2.2	Compression library
Linux	LevelDB	libleveldb.so.1.23.0	Storage library
Linux	SSDB	ssdb-server	Server
Linux	mergerfs	mergerfs	Userspace filesystem
Linux	OpenCC	opencc	CLI tool
Windows	Detours	withdll.exe	Userspace instrumentation tool
Windows	WinSparkle	WinSparkle.dll	Desktop update library
Windows	Ninja	ninja.exe	CLI build tool
Windows	Snappy	snappy.dll	Compression library
Windows	OpenCC	opencc.exe	CLI tool
Windows	Tracy	tracy-profiler.exe	GUI profiler
macOS	Ninja	ninja	CLI build tool
macOS	Snappy	libsnappy.dylib	Compression library
macOS	OpenCC	opencc	CLI tool

Snappy and OpenCC provide shared project coverage across all three platforms; Ninja is shared by Windows and macOS. Exact upstream repository revisions are recorded in the plan and per-image metadata.

OS, architecture, compiler, and dependencies change together in this pilot. Results should be reported per project/platform/compiler/architecture; pooled scores cannot isolate an operating-system effect. The pilot has no kernel or driver target. C++ feature coverage is not yet certified; the plan leaves feature_claims empty until artifact evidence supports them.

Optimization and toolchains

Each selected target has O0, O2, and O2-noinline variants.

Family	O0	O2	O2-noinline
GCC / Apple Clang	-O0	-O2	-O2 -fno-inline
MSVC	/Od /Ob0	/O2	/O2 /Ob0

These are compiler-specific profiles; equivalent mode labels do not imply identical compiler transformations. Effective commands and per-image evidence take precedence over a mode label. The Linux build lane uses GCC 13.3, the macOS lane uses Apple Clang 17, and Windows uses native MSVC. Windows runner images and available command provenance are recorded per image; compiler versions should not be assumed identical across all Windows artifacts.

Ninja and Tracy require explicit control of upstream LTO settings. The recipes preserve debug-bearing linked targets and verify project-compiland PDB evidence; the new Windows imports also check effective optimization flags and the absence of /GL in replayed C++ commands.

Artifact layout and roles

qualification-v2/
├── manifest.json / manifest.sha256
├── plan.json / toolchain-pins.json
├── inputs/{platform}/{architecture}/{mode}/{project}/
├── linux/arm64/{mode}/{project}/
├── windows/x86_64/{mode}/{project}/
├── macos/arm64/{mode}/{project}/
├── sources/{project}/
├── recipes/
└── audit/

The manifest is the authoritative inventory. Metadata may use aarch64 for the architecture while directory names use arm64; follow each record's paths rather than constructing paths from labels.

• inputs/ contains isolated, symbol-reduced decompiler inputs without adjacent PDB/dSYM files. ELF inputs have debug information and the static symbol table stripped; Mach-O inputs are stripped; PE inputs have their debug directory removed. This does not promise removal of every symbol or debug-related byte sequence.
• Platform directories contain original linked images, native debug information, function-identity evidence, status files, and available build logs/commands. Presence of a function record does not by itself certify per-function project ownership.
• sources/ retains pinned tracked source archives and available preprocessing evidence. New Windows replay archives are stored alongside the corresponding Windows image. Provenance completeness varies by record.
• recipes/ contains the build, import, validation, and sealing tools. The tooling repository provides the corresponding checkout layout.
• audit/ records packaging checks, native build outcomes, and legacy inventory observations.

Use only inputs/ for a stripped-input experiment. Keep source/debug artifacts on the evaluator side, separate from decompiler inputs. Preserving source and native debug evidence allows future scoring policies to distinguish source-level C++ types from ABI-level representations without rebuilding the entire corpus.

Quick start

This is a file-based binary corpus, rather than a tabular Parquet dataset. Download files through the Hugging Face Hub.

Download one input with hf

pip install -U huggingface_hub
hf download sjkim1127/decbench-cpp-qualification \
  qualification-v2/manifest.json \
  qualification-v2/inputs/windows/x86_64/O0/ninja/ninja.exe \
  --repo-type dataset \
  --revision 07dd95dbe6214b8a78fc1e4a55961ab515986489 \
  --local-dir cpp-qualification

To download the full v2 namespace, use the same repository and revision with --include 'qualification-v2/**' in place of the explicit filenames.

Select an input and check its hash in Python

import hashlib
import json
from pathlib import Path
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download

repo = "sjkim1127/decbench-cpp-qualification"
revision = "07dd95dbe6214b8a78fc1e4a55961ab515986489"

def download(path):
    return Path(hf_hub_download(
        repo, "qualification-v2/" + path,
        repo_type="dataset", revision=revision,
    ))

manifest = json.loads(download("manifest.json").read_text())
record = next(r for r in manifest["records"] if
    r["platform"] == "windows" and r["project"] == "ninja"
    and r["optimization"] == "O0")
binary = download(record["input"])
assert hashlib.sha256(binary.read_bytes()).hexdigest() == record["stripped_sha256"]
print(binary)

For evaluator-side files, follow the binary path and related status/evidence files. The tracked source archive at sources/{project}/original.tar.gz has the hash recorded in original_source_sha256. A file's presence or matching hash does not make it scoring-ready: inspect qualified, scoring_ready, and remaining_gates before selecting an evaluation population.

What has been verified

At the immutable data snapshot above:

• 45/45 linked images, all 15 planned configurations and all three modes are present; missing planned images: 0.
• Code-preserving input preparation passed for all 45 images. Linux/Windows executable sections and macOS runtime sections were compared against their originals.
• Windows PE CodeView GUID/Age matches its PDB; macOS image/dSYM UUID pairs were checked. Native debug evidence and function ranges were retained.
• All 12 newly built Ninja/Snappy/OpenCC/Tracy Windows jobs passed their selected build, preprocessing, and PDB gates. Their imports verified effective C++ optimization profiles.
• 552 published files were verified against local content, including 212 LFS SHA256 values; the downloaded manifest matched the sealed local manifest byte-for-byte.

Ninja/Snappy/OpenCC evidence comes from run 38326743980. Its nine selected jobs succeeded; the run was then cancelled to stop superseded Tracy builds. Corrected Tracy evidence comes from successful run 38326925658. Existing Detours/WinSparkle evidence comes from run 38208011147.

These checks establish packaging and native debug-pair consistency. They do not establish recovered-code runtime parity or full C++ evaluation correctness.

Remaining qualification and evaluation work

The manifest currently reports 0 fully qualified images and 0 scoring-ready images. Remaining work includes:

1. Complete per-TU compile/link provenance for inherited Linux artifacts, and preprocessing replay evidence for the inherited Detours/WinSparkle artifacts.
2. Full per-function source/range ownership proof. PDB ownership currently matches source files to compilands; template/header and dependency definitions still need individual ownership checks. Inherited DWARF CU ownership also has limits.
3. Exact resolved revisions, original archives, and license inventory for Tracy's fetched dependencies. Its external C++ preprocessing expansions are retained, but those alone do not complete dependency provenance.
4. PDB/dSYM identity and type evaluation integration, plus an agreed C++ type policy covering source-level and ABI-level representations.
5. Feature-coverage qualification and a defined function sampling/evaluation protocol.

The pinned DWARF evidence exporter reuses an existing DecBench reader. Its legacy variable summaries are not a complete C++ source-type model; packaging PDB or dSYM files does not add support to a type metric. Unsupported cases should be recorded explicitly when defining a scoring population.

Relationship to the raw corpus and DecBench

• Raw corpus: the earlier, larger collection; this pilot curates selected targets and adds platform coverage and evidence. The raw corpus was preserved at f1b7e849641baf1d35e293f400bc36aa7a1a4e2c during packaging.
• Qualification v2: the versioned, reviewable pilot under qualification-v2/ at the data snapshot above.
• DecBench: the related evaluation project. This dataset is an independent contribution candidate; no official integration or ranking is asserted.

The older cpp-compiled/manifest.json is not the v2 inventory. At legacy qualification revision d211137b0471b6534ccebef08677dcd947e0a6a4, it referenced 1,086 paths, of which 1,065 were absent, and included PDB/object files in its binaries array. Use the v2 manifest for pilot downloads and completeness checks.

Licensing

This collection combines software from multiple upstream projects and dependencies. There is no single software license asserted for every bundled artifact. Tracked upstream license files are retained in the main-source archives; the fetched-dependency license/provenance inventory remains part of the qualification work described above.

Maintainer and feedback

Maintained by sjkim1127. Feedback on target diversity, debug completeness, source/ABI type contracts, and reproducible evaluation is welcome through this dataset's Community tab or the corpus tooling repository.