Topic created on: June 11, 2006 03:21 CDT by milman .

Hey,

I've examined IDA-Pro, to see if it feets my needs.

I need to find the functions in banch of files, and to do some process on them, however I encountered several problems:
1. it can take lot of time (an hour or more) for big files
2. when running in batch mode (or even on normal work), IDA-PRO sometimes get stack with an error "too many stack points".
3. not all functions are being recognized.

I try varios solutions:
For the 1st problem, I tryed to remove certain option from the auto analysis, but it caused to poor funtions recognizion.

for the second, I switched from ver 4.9 to 4.7, and it seems to stop those errors. I think I also had the error in ver 5.0, but I don't remember right now.

The 3rd problem - I guess it's the way IDA work, and it didn't recognize a function because there was no use of this function, and in other file it did, because, I guess, there use a use of that function. If so, I can live with that.

I'm sorry for this long message, but I'd really like to hear  commets from your experience, tricks to make IDA Pro faster, solutions for reliable work in batch mode (it must not stack), or even alternative tools that can do the job.

Thanks,

        Milman.