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by yifanlu 2660 days ago
Auto analysis when you have barely any information. Any tool can make nice output if you feed it nice input. Try a partial dump from an exotic device and then you’ll see IDA shine.
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See, that's really most of what I ever did with IDA (I don't do a lot of Windows reversing) and I always had to do a lot of binutils munging to get weird architectures to work. But things may have improved dramatically in the last 8 years or so.
Definitely- it's all the years of tweaking and the massive numbers of heuristics to handle, i don't know, code emitted by Microsoft Visual FORTRAN from 1972- that's IDA's moat. Screw the decompiler. If GHIDRA can match that, it's a huge step forwards.