States

Represent general characteristics of a byte in the program. More...

Topics
	Bits: byte states
	Functions: examine byte states
	Bits: specific state information
	Functions: examine specific state information

Detailed Description

Represent general characteristics of a byte in the program.

Each byte of the program may be in one of four states.

• unexplored
• start of instruction
• start of data
• second, third (tail) byte of instruction or data.

Initially, all bytes of the program are unexplored. IDA modifies flags and doing so converts bytes to instructions and data.