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IDA and Microcontrollers

If you ever used IDA to analyze embedded stuff, you would immediately notice its pc-centric nature. ...

Negated structure offsets

A month ago I received a support request: If I have an instruction like

OpenRCE?

What happened to OpenRCE, does anyone know? It would be a pity to lose such a nice resource. This ...

Coordinate system for Hex-Rays

One of must-have features of a reverse engineering tool is the ability to add comments to the ...

Trunk, Branches, and Leaves

IDA Pro being and old and time-proven platform for binary analysis, many plugins grew on it. There ...

Finally, good STL replacement?

A quite interesting document for everyone who programs in C++: ...

Hex-Rays beta testing is open!

This short entry is just to tell you that the decompiler got a name: Hex-Rays and it goes to the ...

Decompilation gets real

Analyzing binary executables can be a very boring activity, especially when you get used to the ...

Very simple custom viewer

As promised, here is the plugin which demonstrates how to create a very simple custom viewer in IDA ...