Augmenting Predefined Comments with loadint
In Chapter 7 we covered IDA’s concept of auto comments, which, when enabled, cause IDA to display comments describing each assembly language instruction. Two examples of such comments are shown in the following listing:
.text:08048654 lea ecx, [esp+arg_0] ; Load Effective Address .text:08048658 and esp, 0FFFFFFF0h ; Logical AND
The source of these predefined comments is the file <IDADIR>/ida.int, which contains comments sorted first by CPU type and second by instruction type. When auto comments are turned on, IDA searches for comments associated with each instruction in the disassembly and displays them in the right margin if they are present in ida.int.
The loadint[91] utilities provide you with the ability ...
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