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Roadmap 2.60:
=============

afl-fuzz:
 - radamsa mutator (via dlopen())

gcc_plugin:
 - laf-intel

libdislocator:
 - add a wrapper for posix_memalign

qemu_mode:
 - update to 4.x (probably this will be skipped :( )
 - instrim for QEMU mode via static analysis (with r2pipe? or angr?)
   Idea: The static analyzer outputs a map in which each edge that must be
   skipped is marked with 1. QEMU loads it at startup in the parent process.

custom_mutators:
 - rip what Superion is doing into custom mutators for js, php, etc.

enhance test/test.sh script for checking if compcov features are working
correctly (especially float splitting)


The far away future:
====================

Problem: Average targets (tiff, jpeg, unrar) go through 1500 edges.
         At afl's default map that means ~16 collisions and ~3 wrappings.
  Solution #1: increase map size.
    every +1 decreases fuzzing speed by ~10% and halfs the collisions
    birthday paradox predicts collisions at this # of edges:
     mapsize => collisions
	2^16 = 302
	2^17 = 427
	2^18 = 603
	2^19 = 853
	2^20 = 1207
	2^21 = 1706
	2^22 = 2412
	2^23 = 3411
	2^24 = 4823
    Increasing the map is an easy solution but also not a good one.
  Solution #2: use dynamic map size and collision free basic block IDs
    This only works in llvm_mode and llvm >= 9 though
    A potential good future solution. Heiko/hexcoder follows this up
  Solution #3: write instruction pointers to a big shared map
    512kb/1MB shared map and the instrumented code writes the instruction
    pointer into the map. Map must be big enough but could be command line
    controlled.
    Good: complete coverage information, nothing is lost. choice of analysis
          impacts speed, but this can be decided by user options
    Neutral: a little bit slower but no loss of coverage
    Bad: completely changes how afl uses the map and the scheduling.
    Overall another very good solution, Marc Heuse/vanHauser follows this up