How to convert IDA Pseudo code casts to Array

Question

I have a pseudo code in IDA which is as such

consdering v5= 3838385024767399985LL

v1 += 53 * *((char *)&v5 + i);

In C-Friendly format this should be v1 += 53 * v5[i]

Is there any way in IDA Pro to convert the above gibberish into a nicer array style value?

Answer 1

If old pseudocode looks like this

int __cdecl main(int argc, const char **argv, const char **envp)
{
  signed int i; 
  int v5; 
  __int64 v6; 

  v6 = 5208208757389214273LL;
  v5 = 0;
  for ( i = 0; i <= 7; ++i )
    v5 += *((char *)&v6 + i);
  return 0;
}

Select v6 and press Y (Set lvar type in right click context). Change from __int64 v6 to char v6[8];

Now it looks like

int __cdecl main(int argc, const char **argv, const char **envp)
{
  signed int i; 
  int v5; 
  char v6[8]; 

  *(_QWORD *)v6 = 5208208757389214273LL;
  v5 = 0;
  for ( i = 0; i <= 7; ++i )
    v5 += v6[i];
  return 0;
}