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How do I switch Ghidra to showing canonical register names instead of aliases?

I am new to Ghidra SRE.

How do I switch Ghidra's view mode to display canonical (real world) register names instead of such aliases as param_1 and param_2 ?

Here is a screenshot of a CodeBrowser showing a listing of ASM commands which I talk about. Aliases param_1 and param_2 have purple / violet colour. enter image description here

SRE's version is 10.2.3 if that matters.

I have searched all the settings, but I did not find it.

By the way, the Always Show Primary Reference switch is enabled in Edit -> Tool Options -> Listing Fields -> Operands Field -> Always Show Primary Reference. So, I do not know why it keeps showing aliases.

Solution

  • It looks like I have found a solution.

    I need to disable following switches as well:

    Then the CodeBrowsers begins showing ECX instead of param_1 and EDX instead of param_2.
    I found this solution here: reddit

    Updated settings
    (Edit -> Tool Options -> Listing Fields -> Operands Field):
    Updated Settings

    Result
    (Canonical Register Names are used instead of aliases):
    Canonical Register Names

    I hope, this will save someone's time as well.