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I haven't ever been able to test IDA's decompiler or debugger, as IDA Free only does x64, and all the RE I've done is on 32-bit binaries.

Ghidra's decompiler worked fine for this project. It made 2 relevant mistakes which I talk about in the blog posts, but they were fairly easy to identify when comparing with the disassembly.

As I discussed in the post, Ghidra did have some difficulty (which IDA did not have) locating all the functions, so I did end up using both Ghidra and IDA in the initial stages.

The progress that Ghidra is making though (e.g. the recent implementation of debugger support) is promising for the future.



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