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Topic created on: October 18, 2010 13:45 CDT by current .

hello guys ..

this can be weird question .. but plz dun be rude ..

Ques1 -> well " Psuedo Code " generated by Ida pro , reduces the work of Reverse Engineering ???  

ques2 -> IS Psudo Code generated by Ida pro .. is used by security researchers during their tasks or they prefer manual reversing the asm .. ?

Ques3 -> Finally , to how much extent , we can depend on the psudeo code generated by ida pro ???


I hope you understand my all three questions  :)

  takerZ   October 19, 2010 05:58.20 CDT
� sometimes
� there are some tasks where it could be a great help, but still the asm is more preferable
� i would give about 70 percent or so

  g0dmoney     October 19, 2010 08:00.16 CDT
If you disassemble a file, and just hit gen psudo-code on a function, you're not going to be able to immediately understand it right off the bat.  I like to disassemble, rename variables, comment, lable etc, then use the decompiler to help verify my psudocode.  Reversing completely or almost completely before decompiling makes it a lot easier to understand.

Never rely on one single thing, because if that fails you have 100% failure.  Disassemble, debug, decompile, do what you need to do to get the whole picture.

  0xvoila     October 19, 2010 08:53.22 CDT
Thanks to both takerZ and g0dmoney for your answers ...

:)

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