IDA automatically generates false names, which are used to represent sub-functions, program addresses and data. Fake names have different prefixes according to different types and values:
- sub_: starting point of instructions and sub-functions
- locret_: return instruction
- loc_: instruction
- off_: data, including offset
- seg_: data, including segment address value
- asc_: data, ASCII string
- byte_: data, byte (or byte array)
- word_: data, 16-bit data (or word array)
- dword_: data, 32-bit data (or double word array)
- qword_: data, 64-bit data (or 4-word array)
- flt_: floating point data, 32 bits (or floating point array)
- dbl_: floating-point number, 64-bit (or double-precision array)
- tbyte_: floating point number, 80 bits (or extended precision floating point number)
- stru_: structure (or structure array)
- algn_: alignment instructions
- unk_: unprocessed bytes