Chapter 19. IDA PROCESSOR MODULES

IDA PROCESSOR MODULES

The last type of IDA modules that can be built with the SDK is processor modules, which are by far the most complex of IDA’s module types. Processor modules are responsible for all of the disassembly operations that take place within IDA. Beyond the obvious conversion of machine language opcodes into their assembly language equivalents, processor modules are also responsible for tasks such as creating functions, generating cross-references, and tracking the behavior of the stack pointer.

The obvious case that would require development of a processor module is reverse engineering a binary for which no processor module ...

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