OpenRCE: Blog

IDA Pro 5.5 goes alpha

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:12:44 -0500

After many months of work, IDA Pro 5.5 is now in alpha stage and this week the beta will be out for testing.

Decompiling floating point

Tue, 05 May 2009 12:13:32 -0500

It is a nice feeling, when, after long debugging nights, your software
finally runs and produces meaningful results. Another hallmark is when other users
start to use it and obtain useful results. Usually this period is very busy: lots
of new bugs are discovered and fixed, unforeseen corner cases are handled.
Then another period starts: when users come back
for more copies,with more ideas, request more functionality, etc. This is what is happening
with the decompiler now and I feel it is time to update you with the latest news.

IDA v5.4 demo

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:01:55 -0500

Just a quick note for interested parties: we prepared the new demo version of IDA Pro. The new demo includes the bochs debugger. The debugger is fully functional with just one limitation: it will become inactive after a number of commands. I prefer to tell you this in advance rather than this limitation to be discovered in the middle of a heavy debugging session ;)

Heres the download link:

http://www.hex-rays.com/idapro/idadowndemo.htm

Enjoy!

Advanced Windows Kernel Debugging with VMWare and IDAs GDB debugger

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:21:04 -0600

We have already published short tutorial on Windows kernel debugging
with IDA and VMWare on our site, but the debugging experience can
still be improved.

VMWares GDB stub is very basic, it doesnt know anything about processes or
threads (for Windows guests), so for anything high-level well need
to do some extra work. We will show how to get the loaded module list
and load symbols for all them using IDAPython.

IDA Pro has 9 debugger modules

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:43:41 -0600

Since the number of debugger modules in IDA surpassed the magical number seven plus or minus two, we created a small table describing what is available and what is not:

http://www.hex-rays.com/idapro/debugger/index.htm

Direct links to tutorials are available here:

http://www.hex-rays.com/idapro/idasupport.htm

I know, I know - we need to add 64-bit support for all platforms, port the Bochs debugger module to Linux, and... any other suggestions? I personally would love to have source level debugging, yet it requires some substantial changes to the kernel. We probably will move in this direction, sooner or later...