Questions tagged [type-reconstruction]
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How can I tell ghidra what structure an address register points to?
I am reversing a raw bare-metal binary firmware for a tricore processor (TC1762/TC1766).
In many functions i'm currently reversing there is access to offsets of the address stored in the a0 register. ...
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How to define a 28-bit integer in Ghidra
I'm working on reverse-engineering firmware for an STM32G0B1, which has two onboard CAN modules, in Ghidra.
I think that a proper data structure for both the Tx and Rx FIFO buffers would help me ...
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determine proprietary 16-bit floating-point format
Background / Introducion
CAN message Mercedes-Benz, cannot determine 16-bit data type for temperature.
7E 00 32 01 37 00
According to @rnd-ash (who has reverse engineered ACTIA Basic XS Monitor ...
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What is the difference between uintX_n (used in IDA Pro) and unitX_t types?
During debugging a binary in IDA Pro, I've noticed types of the form
30 uint16_n 00000002 struct {uint16_t inner;}
42 uint32_n ...
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How are members of a Structure Type positioned on the stack?
Some of the structure types have members that are not stacked next to each other. Check out the structure type at 0x33E6 in bzip2_base (x86-64) here. There's an int at location offset 0, a char at 4 ...
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structures defined on stack?
While reading this paper on type recovery from executables, I came across following paragraph:
It is worth noting that the domain of parameters of a function can be
considered as a structure ...
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is there any way to get type information using IDA Demo
I am using IDA Demo (evaluation version >7). I have a binary:
#include <stdbool.h>
int do_decode(){}
int main()
{
bool decode = false;
char opt = getopt();
switch (opt)
{
case 'd':
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Type reconstruction ambiguity
In TIE: Principled Reverse Engineering of Types in Binary Programs, Lee J. et al claim to solve most of the challenges in the process of C code decompilation that come with type reconstruction.
While ...
