IDA - Searching for floats/doubles

[Tanaris4]

I know this is a bit of a n00b question, and I've actually searched for floats successfully thus far (I'm trying to find GetFramerate for the mac binary, but the xrefs don't work the same as on windows :/ And I noticed 3 floats referenced, so I wanted to search for these on the mac binary).

But, the question, how do you search for floats/doubles? Obviously doing "immediate value" will not work as it just converts it to 0. And searching for a byte sequence is not working either (I choose decimal, paste it with quotes (it tells me to), and it immediately returns with a result (indicating no search was done))

Thanks in advance!

[Tanaris4]

Anyone have any ideas for this? Seems like it has to be possible

[Tanaris4]

No one? o.O

[Mr.Zunz]

GetFramerate API? D:

[Tanaris4]

The IDA question, I already figured out GetFramerate a different way

[Cypher]

It's not pretty, but you could use the text search. :P

Seriously though that's a good question. I normally just run the game and use a restricted memory search (so it just searches the .data and .rdata sections).

[Tanaris4]

It's even worse on a mac too, b/c IDA doesn't realize what data should actually be floating points /cry But I can set them to that easily enough. I've tried the byte-by-byte search with very limited success

[Cypher]

More proofs that Macs suck.

[Tanaris4]

But I can wall walk!!!!!!

[MaiN]

Did you try just searching for the byte sequence? Something like:

float f = 123.123f;
int i = *(int*)&f;
std::cout << std::hex << i;

And then seperate the hex digits to bytes and search for that.

[Cypher]

But I can wall walk!!!!!!

So can I. Lol.