
Users have created plugins that allow other common scripting languages to be used instead of, or in addition to, IDC. For example, external symbol tables can be loaded thereby using the function names of the original source code. Most frequently scripts are used for extra modification of the generated code. Some helpful scripts are provided, which can serve as the basis for user written scripts. "IDC scripts" make it possible to extend the operation of the disassembler. A typical IDA user will begin with an automatically generated disassembly listing and then convert sections from code to data and vice versa, rename, annotate, and otherwise add information to the listing, until its functionality becomes clear.

However, the nature of disassembly precludes total accuracy, and a great deal of human intervention is necessarily required IDA has interactive functionality to aid in improving the disassembly.

A decompiler plug-in, which generates a high level, C source code-like representation of the analysed program, is available at extra cost. It can also be used as a debugger for Windows PE, Mac OS X Mach-O, and Linux ELF executables.

It supports a variety of executable formats for different processors and operating systems.

The Interactive Disassembler ( IDA) is a disassembler for computer software which generates assembly language source code from machine-executable code.
