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Re:Ask HN: What's the best resource for learning modern x64 ... by ackbar03 on Sunday February 09, 2020 @02:53AM (#22280956)
I was using ghidra for one of my uhh research projects earlier and I actually found the decompiler from hex rays still does better in some cases. In ghidra sometimes it times out and fails to decompile. Maybe I'm not using it correctly? I haven't begun exploring what kind of plug-ins and stuff it has, maybe that helps?
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best resource for learning modern x64 ... by gallexme on Sunday February 09, 2020 @05:24AM (#22281391)
For me ghidra is better with c++ disassembling than hex ray, but hex ray is better with c style assemblies

Thanks to the better RTTI Analyzer

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best resource for learning modern x64 ... by zelly on Sunday February 09, 2020 @04:12PM (#22284339)
It depends massively on platform, architecture, and programming language. Hex-Rays is probably still ideal for embedded and obscure platforms. Ghidra's decompiler seems optimized for ARM and amd64 userland consumer-level stuff that the NSA was most interested in hacking.
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