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Represent general characteristics of a byte in the program. More...

Modules

 Bits: byte states
 
 Functions: examine byte states
 
 Bits: specific state information
 
 Functions: examine specific state information
 

Detailed Description

Represent general characteristics of a byte in the program.

Each byte of the program may be in one of four states.

  • unexplored
  • start of instruction
  • start of data
  • second, third (tail) byte of instruction or data.

Initially, all bytes of the program are unexplored. IDA modifies flags and doing so converts bytes to instructions and data.