Hex-Rays interactive operation: Set Number Representation

Hotkeys:

H - toggle between hexadecimal and decimal representations
R - switch to character constant representation
M - switch to enumeration (symbolic constant) representation
_ - invert sign

This command allows the user to specify the desired form of a numeric constant. Please note that some constants have a fixed form and can not be modified. This mainly includes constants generated by the decompiler on the fly.

The decompiler ties the number format information to the instruction that generated the constant. The instruction address and the operand number are used for that. If a constant, which was generated by a single instruction, is used in many different locations in the pseudocode, all these locations will be modified at once.

Using the 'invert sign' negates the constant and resets the enum/char flag if it was set.

When this command is applied the first time to a negative constant, the output will seemingly stay the same. However, the list of symbolic constants available to the M hotkey changes. For example, if the constant is '-2', then before inverting the sign the symbolic constants corresponding to '-2' are available. After inverting the sign the symbolic constants corresponding to '2' are available.