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authorblasty <blasty@local>2026-07-25 23:49:14 +0200
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loading: say how to read a headerless blob (processor, base)
A raw firmware dump has no format to detect, so IDA fell back to x86 at address 0. It doesn't fail — it opens, analyses, and finds nothing. An AArch64 image loaded this way gave 0 functions; told the truth it gives 35. ida-tui fw.bin --processor arm --base 0x8000000 and per binary in a project, which is what a multi-image firmware actually needs: {"path": "app.bin", "processor": "arm", "base": "0x8000000"} idapro.open_database() already accepted IDA command-line switches; nothing was passing any. Plumbed BinaryRef -> WorkerPool -> WorkerClient -> worker argv, plus a load_args for the single-binary path that has no project ref. base is written the way people say it (0x8000000, int or string, any base). IDA's -b is in PARAGRAPHS — -b1000 loads at 0x10000 — so BinaryRef.load_args converts, and a base that isn't 16-byte aligned is refused rather than silently landing 16x off. ida_args passes anything else through. Two bugs found by testing the whole path rather than the happy one: * Project.load() whitelisted path/label when normalising entries, so the load options were dropped the first time a project was reopened — set a processor, come back tomorrow, it's gone. * Re-passing the switches to an EXISTING database makes IDA refuse the open (rc != 0, no functions). The .i64 already records how the image was loaded, so the worker skips them once a database exists. My first guard checked splitext(path) + ".i64" and never fired, because IDA names it "<file>.i64" — keeping the extension. It checks both spellings now. Verified on a real AArch64 blob: fresh load 35 functions based at 0x8002440, reopen 35 again, and the CLI rejects an unaligned or non-numeric --base. tests: +6 project (options recorded, paragraph conversion, file round-trip, add() takes them, an ELF passes nothing, hex-string base). 39/0 project, 195/0 scenarios, 30/0 project UI, 36/0 index, 27/0 pool.
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