What is your favorite disassembler tool in Mac OS X? [closed]

Question

I am using the otool, nm and Fraise text editor to disassemble the Mach-o binaries. My workflow at this point is pretty straightforward:

1. List the existed symbols.

nm -g

2. Get the disasm code.

otool -vt

3. Copy and paste this output to a text file.

4. Read and comment the code in the text editor :)

I am looking for the tools that simplify the working with disasm code on Mac OS X.

Breland

Just a note for anyone reading this that otool -Vt will give you symbols for operands, e.g. callq _main rather than callq 0x100001060. – Solitude

Answer 1

You might want to try

• Hopper Disassembler,
• osxdbg,
• Machoview,
• otx (otool GUI)
• and Affinic Debugger GUI.

Semidome

Answer 2

I als know of http://www.hopperapp.com/, but never used it. (cannot be compared to Ida(Pro))

Pride

Much respect for mentioning hopper - I hadn't heard of it until I read your post. After playing with the trial for 5 minutes I was easily convinced to purchase. Thanks for turning me on to it. – Calabar