Vector35 / Vector35/binaryninja-api
Section name column width in memory map widget should be wide enough to accomodate 16 characters.
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Description
While ELF and PE are (supposedly?) limited to 8 bytes for section names, Mach-O allows 16, and Mach-O binaries very frequently make use of all 16 of them. Universally so in Objective-C binaries and libraries.
When trying to quickly jump to a specific __objc_class... or related section, this results in the following:
Which requires manually resizing the column every time a new view is opened. This quickly becomes a papercut when repeatedly opening views for multiple ObjC files.
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Research direction
Start by locating the memory map widget and the code that initializes the section-name column width. Adjust the behavior so 16-character Mach-O section names are visible without manual resizing, then verify the result with a Mach-O binary containing long section names.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop, reverse-engineering
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100