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Diffstat (limited to 'idatui/formats.py')
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diff --git a/idatui/formats.py b/idatui/formats.py index b2f784d..f09bb99 100644 --- a/idatui/formats.py +++ b/idatui/formats.py @@ -92,9 +92,18 @@ def needs_load_options(path: str) -> bool: #: reach for first — arm64, aarch64, mips, m68k — are all invalid. Re-run the #: script before adding to this list. PROCESSORS: tuple[tuple[str, str], ...] = ( - # 'arm' covers AArch64 too; arm64/aarch64 are NOT valid -p names, so they - # live in the label where the filter can still find them. - ("arm", "ARM / AArch64 / arm64 — little-endian"), + # Bare 'arm' gives a 64-BIT database in IDA 9 (AArch64). That matters far + # more than it looks: Hex-Rays refuses a 32-bit function in a 64-bit database + # ("only 64-bit functions can be decompiled in the current database"), and + # Thumb doesn't exist in AArch64 at all — so a 32-bit ARM image loaded as + # plain 'arm' disassembles wrongly and can never be decompiled. The database + # bitness is fixed at load; it cannot be corrected afterwards (setting it + # post-hoc makes the decompiler INTERR). Pick the right one here. + ("arm", "ARM64 / AArch64 / arm64 — 64-bit, little-endian"), + ("arm:ARMv7-A", "ARM 32-bit (ARMv7-A) — Thumb capable, most firmware"), + ("arm:ARMv7-M", "ARM 32-bit (ARMv7-M) — Cortex-M, Thumb only"), + ("arm:ARMv6-M", "ARM 32-bit (ARMv6-M) — Cortex-M0/M0+"), + ("arm:ARMv5TE", "ARM 32-bit (ARMv5TE) — older SoCs"), ("armb", "ARM — big-endian"), ("metapc", "x86 / x86-64"), ("mipsl", "MIPS — little-endian"), |