Igor’s Tip of the Week #144: Macros and simplified instructions
Many processors (especially RISC based) use instruction sets with fixed size (most commonly 4 ...
Igor’s Tip of the Week #143: Fixing wrong address references in the decompiler
When decompiling code without high-level metadata (especially firmware), you may observe ...
Igor’s Tip of the Week #142: Mapping local types
When working on a binary, you often recover types used in it from many sources:
Igor’s Tip of the Week #141: Parsing C files
Previosuly, we’ve covered creating structures from C code using the Local Types window, however ...
Igor’s Tip of the Week #140: Loading PDB types
While IDA comes with a rich set of type libraries for Windows API, they don’t cover the whole set ...
Igor’s Tip of the Week #139: License borrowing
Floating licenses allow additional flexibility for companies with many IDA users: IDA can be ...
Igor’s Tip of the Week #138: Pointer math in the decompiler
While working with decompiled code and retyping variables (or sometimes when they get typed by the ...
Igor’s Tip of the Week #137: Processor modes and segment registers
Some of the processors supported by IDA support different ISA variants, in particular:
Igor’s Tip of the Week #136: Changing assembler syntax
When exporting disassembly, sometimes you need to modify it so that it is accepted by a specific ...
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