I'm looking for a way to found out how many times instruction at specified address was executed before break point hit.
Is there some standard way? I cannot found this in its interface.
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Sign up to join this communityDisclaimer: I don't have IDA available to try it out right now, so a detail might be wrong.
Just add some code to the breakpoint condition. For example
extern bpcount;
bpcount++;
Message(form("%d. hit\n"), bpcount);
return (bpcount>500);
This will increment the count each time the breakpoint is it, but only break the program after more than 500 hits. Replace the return instruction with return 0
if you never want to break, or return 1
if you always want to break.
Apparently IDA 7.0 (and earlier?) supports a "pass count" for a breakpoint, you can even see a column for that in the breakpoint list window, but I found no way to configure it via the UI.
You can use the following Python commands to create a breakpoint with a pass count though, where 0x12345678
is the address at which you want to set it, and 42
the hit count:
add_bpt(0x12345678, 1, BPT_DEFAULT)
set_bpt_attr(0x12345678, BPTATTR_COUNT, 42)
I have added Python
script on a breakpoint.
f = open('C:\\Users\\T3\\Desktop\\Count.txt', 'r+')
strData = f.readline()
n = int(strData)
n = n + 1
f.seek(0)
f.write(str(n))
f.close()
return 0
Count
file at the beginning contained 0
but after execution it contains hit count.
This way has one drawback. File IO is slow, so registry counters may be used because it is stored in memory (that is only for Windows).