Find All / Search preview should be able to fetch the nearest instruction
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- reverse-engineering, search
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the Find All/Search preview and disassembly behavior described here, then determine how a result inside an instruction can resolve to the nearest instruction and where a before/after option belongs. Done means the preview shows the requested nearest instruction behavior without requiring each result to be opened.
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Description
What is the feature you'd like to have?
Currently, the search box is optimized for finding rop gadgets. If you search into the middle of an instruction, it will disassemble the bytes it found rather than the nearest instruction in the disassembly. It would be nice if there was a checkbox or option in the right click context menu to "Show nearest instruction". Maybe to be able to go nearest before or after (I would prefer before).
Is your feature request related to a problem?
When searching to see what a chunk of bytes is hitting in a binary (e.g. from a malware signature) the disassembly in the preview does not reflect the actual instructions. Instead you must click into each result.
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