Reverse pseudo code

Question

I am reversing a binary which seems to have all the symbols exported which helps. What I have seen is a pile of variables and functions which all start with the letter 'v', for example v101. I have been playing around with the decompiler from IDA and noticed that its pseudo code generally uses the same form having variables starting with the letter 'v'. I know this may seem silly to ask but I am looking at a binary which is actually just IDA pro pseudo code compiled?

A snippet of pseudo code generated:

int v3480()
{
  __int32 v0; // r0@1

  v0 = time(0);
  srand48(v0);

  // TODO Object initialisation!!
  v877 = &v3688;
  v1277 = &v7299;
  v1634 = &v5690;
  v2042 = &v7024;

  v873 = &v3688;
  v872 = (char *)&v3688 + 1;
  v1274 = &v7299;
  v485 = &unk_40B69FF5;

  v1631 = &v5690;
  v1629 = (char *)&v5690 + 1;

  v2037 = &v7024;
  v2038 = (char *)&v7024 + 1;

  v5661 = -1;
  v2325 = -1;
  v1259 = -1;
  v4048 = -1;
  v5509 = &v5497;
  v3845 = &unk_40B69EEC;
  v3522 = &v4191;
  v7253 = &unk_40B69EE4;
  v2081 = &v3009;
  v5828 = &unk_40B69EDC;
  v7014 = &v2061;
  v3636 = &unk_40B69ED4;
  v217 = &v6520;
  v218 = &v6524;
  v219 = &v6525;
  v221 = &v6523;
  v1455 = &v6523;
  unk_40B69EF4 = &v6524;
  v7297 = &dword_40A071D0;
  v5530 = &dword_40A071D0;
  if ( dword_40A071D0 )
  {
    v6935();
  }
  else
  {
    memcpy(v219, &v5764, 0xE3958u);
    dword_40A071D0 = 1;
  }
  return 0;
}

Answer 1

You're looking at pseudocode reconstructed from the binary. After compilation all variable names disappeared, so IDA generates new generic ones.

It looks like that all v* variables are local (allocated on the stack)