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Created: Wednesday, February 7 2007 18:27.30 CST Modified: Wednesday, February 7 2007 18:27.30 CST
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Does return come back?
Author: hexrays # Views: 2224

We all know that call invokes a function and ret returns to the caller. Alas, nothing is certain in the binary world. The ret instruction is quite often used for short jumps within a function. Among many other improvements in IDA v5.1 there will be a special logic to recognize and mark such pseudo-returns. I was surprised to see this graph and post it here for your amusement:



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