Exclusive IDA Pro 7.7 SP1

IDA 7.7.220218 (maintenance release)

Improvements:​

• + decompiler: improve handling of volatile reads (some were incorrectly propagated)
• + golang: apply reflection function prototypes to methods when available
• + golang: create function types from reflection metadata
• + PDB: support SP-relative local variables
• + UI: speed up Home/End/Digits navigation in sorted choosers

Bugfixes​

• BUGFIX: debugger: IDA could lock up if the remote debug server stopped responding
• BUGFIX: decompiler: fix interrs when decompiling functions with >64 arguments
• BUGFIX: decompiler: fixed infinite loop while analyzing some golang binaries
• BUGFIX: decompiler: fixed multiple interrs
• BUGFIX: disassembly: parentheses could be missing in complex offset expressions like "target-(base+N)"
• BUGFIX: golang: fixed an interr caused by slice types with circular dependencies
• BUGFIX: golang: remove unnecessary BUILTIN_SLICE type
• BUGFIX: idaclang would fail to store mangled symbols in the TIL, which means the prototypes would not be detected when loading the TIL with the "Load type library" action)
• BUGFIX: idapython: IDA could crash if None was passed to some API calls
• BUGFIX: kernel: fixed interr 1007 that could occur when processing types with bitfields
• BUGFIX: kernel: get_item_size(BADADDR) could return huge values in some situations (should be 1)
• BUGFIX: UI: on Windows, IDA could produce a fatal error "CreateDIBSection failed" when trying to display a very wide hint
• BUGFIX: UI: Options>Compiler>Arguments setting was not saved in the database

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IDA 7.7.220125 (7.7 SP1 hotfix, floating only)

Bugfixes​

• BUGFIX: floating license IDA could crash on start if there was an error during connection to the server or if working offline (with borrowed license)

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IDA 7.7.220118 (7.7 SP1)

This Service Pack of IDA 7.7 is primarily a bugfix release.

Complete changelist:​

Decompiler:

• Improve return value recognition in golang functions

PPC:

• Improved the analysis speed of arrays filled with 0xFF bytes

Bugfixes​

• BUGFIX: ARM Mac debugger could fail to launch a universal binary when run in instant debugging mode
• BUGFIX: decompiler: fix decompilation of switches when the switch register is reused between range check and indirect jump
• BUGFIX: decompiler: fixed multiple interrs
• BUGFIX: decompiler: fixed wrong warning about lvar allocation failure for functions with scattered return value
• BUGFIX: golang: fix annotation of rtype methods in 64 bit binaries
• BUGFIX: launching the Mac debugger with an empty database could cause the debugged application to behave erratically
• BUGFIX: Local ARM Mac OS debugger was missing from the Run/Attach menus when starting IDA with an empty idb
• BUGFIX: MACHO: IDA would fail to properly load modules from some iOS15 dyldcaches (iPhone X and earlier)
• BUGFIX: PC: movdir64b with wrong operands would be erroneously decoded and cause a crash
• BUGFIX: the Debugger menu could disappear when using IDA Home
• BUGFIX: ui/qt: IDA could fail to display certain unicode codepoints correctly
• BUGFIX: UI: filter dropdown in "Modify filters" dialog could grow too wide if long filter strings were added
• BUGFIX: Windbg: breakpoints were not restored correctly in databases created from DMP files
• BUGFIX: windbg: IDA could loop infinitely when debugging Windows startup on machine with multiple processors
• BUGFIX: XTENSA: label operands for loop instructions were decoded as immediates