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diff --git a/docs/PROJECTS.md b/docs/PROJECTS.md index 5f8e327..88ce2f6 100644 --- a/docs/PROJECTS.md +++ b/docs/PROJECTS.md @@ -258,6 +258,15 @@ when no loader matches: │ Enter accept · Tab base address · Esc load as IDA │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ +Every name in that list is verified against a real IDA by `tools/verify_procs.py` +(open a scratch blob with `-p<name>`, read back `inf_get_procname()`). A wrong +name is *rejected* — rc=4, nothing useful said — which would be a dead end handed +out from inside the dialog meant to rescue you. Two of the first twenty were +wrong: `h8` and `sparc` are module filenames (`procs/h8.so`), not processor +names; the real ones are `h8300` and `sparcb`/`sparcl`. The aliases people reach +for first — `arm64`, `aarch64`, `mips`, `m68k` — are all invalid too, so they +live in the human labels where the filter still finds them. + `formats.sniff()` decides whether to ask, and only recognises formats IDA definitely handles (ELF, PE, Mach-O, dex, wasm, ar, COFF, Intel HEX, S-records). Being cautious the wrong way costs one dismissible dialog; being cautious the |