Talk:Interactive Disassembler

Direct file links
Two of the external links point directly to files (a ZIP file and an EXE). This seems like poor form to me... they should point to pages that host the files, not the files themselves. But I'm not sure where to go. - furrykef (Talk at me) 06:56, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

"Interactive Disassembler" should be a category
The proper name for IDA Pro is of course IDA Pro. It is an interactive disassembler. Here is a list of interactive disassemblers:


 * Hopper (software) at http://www.hopperapp.com/
 * BinNavi at http://www.zynamics.com/binnavi.html
 * Binary Ninja at https://binary.ninja/
 * IDA Pro at https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/
 * Relyze at https://www.relyze.com/
 * Medusa (software) at https://github.com/wisk/medusa
 * Radare2 at http://radare.org

Many of these should also be in a decompiler category. There ought to be summary articles as well, as there are for web browsers. Based on what Wikipedia has for web browsers:


 * Web_browser --> Interactive_disassembler
 * List_of_web_browsers --> List_of_interactive_disassemblers
 * Category:Web_browsers --> Category:Interactive_disassemblers
 * Comparison_of_web_browsers --> Comparison_of_interactive_disassemblers
 * Usage_share_of_web_browsers --> Usage_share_of_interactive_disassemblers
 * History_of_the_web_browser --> History_of_the_interactive_disassembler
 * Timeline_of_web_browsers --> Timeline_of_interactive_disassemblers

50.89.71.42 (talk) 04:13, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 1 one external link on Interactive Disassembler. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20060116123556/http://d-dome.net:80/idapython/ to http://www.d-dome.net/idapython

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Cheers.—cyberbot II  Talk to my owner :Online 09:22, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

History of IDA Pro Logo
Historically, many users of have believed that its logo is a picture of Ada Lovelace which turns out to be factually incorrect. I'm not sure if any of the readers of this article will care since the logo is presently missing from the article's Infobox, but for the record the |IDA Pro Disassembler has used a picture of Françoise d'Aubigné as a logo since the late 1990s. This is noted in a blog post written by the primary developer, Ilfak Guilfanov, for his company's blog with the earliest instance of her visage being found at an archived version of his first company's website that is hosted at. One thing to note, however, is that the disassembler itself was started in 1991 as he had mentioned in an earlier interview and some of his publications with regards to the technology that he needed to develop for it are in the years 1997 and 2001. As a result, we can assume that the decision of using the picture of Françoise d'Aubigné for the logo was likely made between 1991 and 1997. — 70.113.64.5 (talk) 00:44, 4 February 2020 (UTC)


 * I'm working on improving this page now. Thank you for taking the time to research the history of the logo, as well as for finding citations relevant to the history of IDA. I am copying some of the citations here into inline citations on the main page. Wysholp (talk) 05:35, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Is it really Françoise d'Aubigné though? The link you've provided doesn't explicitly state that, it just hints about some medieval lady that wasn't saint. Nhjuo541 (talk) 19:18, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, it is Françoise d'Aubigné, but this is only really clear from reading this sentence on the "In popular culture" section of her article, which includes a link to an auction site selling a miniature depicting her image:
 * A depiction of Madame de Maintenon File:Mme de Maintenon.jpg of unknown provenance, similar to that seen on a 1719 miniature recently offered for sale, is the logo of IDA Pro reverse engineering software. Wysholp 🧊 (talk) 04:20, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
 * @Nhjuo541 I have just added a Logo section (diff) to this article, which clarifies some of the origins of the logo. Let me know if this makes sense. Wysholp 🧊 (talk) 05:04, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Link
The link `http://www.idapro.ru/` is broken, it gets redirected to some plane ticket sale. Will try to find an old state in archive.org. 178.203.144.215 (talk) 13:03, 30 July 2022 (UTC)

Working on improving the page
Hi all, I am currently working on improving this page.

What I've done so far:


 * Added information about IDA's prevalence and relevance in industry to the lead section
 * Added more detailed information about IDA's features
 * Added more detailed information about IDA's history, including additional citations

What I would like to do next:


 * Add more inline citations for the rest of the article and citations from independent sources, to fix the problems highlighted by the current maintenance tags
 * Add more information about IDA's features, including FLIRT function libraries and the Hex-Rays decompiler plugin
 * Find a good screenshot of IDA which can be used on the page. I'm new to Wikipedia, so I'm still reading up on the policies about non-free image use before I do this.
 * Add more history about the development and when various major features were introduced.

Please let me know if you have questions about any of my edits or want to contribute to any of the above. Wysholp 🧊 (talk) 02:03, 17 March 2023 (UTC)