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Need help about IDA plugin writing

Need help about IDA plugin writing

I'm a newbie to write IDA plugin. I'm reading a packer's code,there are
so many junkcodes so i decide to write a plugin to clear them.

for example.

Code:
011D320D 87 F5			xchg    esi, ebp
011D320F F7 D6			not     esi
011D3211 87 F5			xchg    esi, ebp
011D3213 F7 D5			not     ebp
Obviously they can be replaced by 8 nops. The problem is,they might be separated
by some more "basic" junkcode such as "lea ebp,[ebp]" or "jmp" like this:

Code:
xchg	esi,ebp
				not	esi
				jmp	xxxxxxxx
		xxxxxxxx:
				
				xchg	esi,ebp
				not	ebp
So i wrote some codes like this(a simplified version).


Code:
StripAtomicGarbage(nVAFrom,nVATo);	// This one replaces something like "lea ebp,[ebp]" with nops
StripDiscreteGarbage(nVAFrom,nVATo);

typedef struct _INSTRUCTION_INFO
{
	ea_t	address;	
	int	size;				
}INSTRUCTION_INFO, *PINSTRUCTION_INFO;


void StripDiscreteGarbage(ea_t nVAFrom,ea_t nVATo)
{
	
	DWORD		dwCurrAddr	= 0;
	BYTE		opcode		= 0;
	DWORD		dwSkip		= 0;
	
	dwCurrAddr = nVAFrom;
	while(dwCurrAddr < nVATo)
	{
		dwSkip = 0;
		
		// At first i called isCode but many junkcodes
		// were skipped.

		opcode = get_byte(dwCurrAddr);

		switch(opcode)	
		{
		case 0x87:	// xchg reg32,reg32
			dwSkip = Garbage_Xchg(dwCurrAddr);
			break;
		
		......

		default:
			break;
		}
		
		if(dwSkip)	
		{
			dwCurrAddr += dwSkip;
		}
		else
		{
			dwCurrAddr ++;
		}
	}
}

DWORD Garbage_Xchg(ea_t lpCurrOpcode)
{
	BYTE				data[8];				
	INSTRUCTION_INFO		InstrInfo[4];				
	DWORD				dwNumOfItem		= 0;
	DWORD				dwSkip			= 0;
	DWORD				dwBytesBeforeJmp	= 0;	
	
	
	if(Intelli_GetManyBytes(lpCurrOpcode,data,8,InstrInfo,dwNumOfItem,dwBytesBeforeJmp))
	{
		if((0xF7 == data[2]) && (0x87 == data[4]) && (0xF7 == data[6]))	// pattern matched?
		{
			Intelli_Nop(InstrInfo,dwNumOfItem);
			dwSkip = dwBytesBeforeJmp;
			nNumOfDiscreteJunk++;
		}
	}

	return dwSkip;
}

bool Intelli_GetManyBytes(ea_t lpStartAddr,			// start address
			  PBYTE lpBuff,				// result
			  int nSize,				// bytes to get
			  PINSTRUCTION_INFO lpInstrInfo,	// result,save instruction info
			  DWORD & dwNumOfItem,			// number of items in lpInstrInfo
			  DWORD & dwSkip)			// bytes occupied(not including ones after jmp)
{	
	// read bytes specified at lpStart,skip nops & jmp

	bool		bRet			= FALSE;
	bool		bJmpPresent		= FALSE;		
	int		nCounter		= 0;			
	ea_t		lpCurrOpcode		= 0;
	int		nInstrLen		= 0;			
	xde_instr	instruction;
	BYTE		tmp[0xA];						
	
	
	dwNumOfItem = 0;
	dwSkip = 0;
	lpCurrOpcode = lpStartAddr;

	while(TRUE)
	{
		get_many_bytes(lpCurrOpcode,tmp,0x10);		// read 10 bytes each time

		// sorry i'm not familar with IDA SDK so i used XDE instead.

		nInstrLen = xde_disasm(tmp,&instruction);
		
		if(0 == nInstrLen)
		{
			msg("Failed to analysis the code at %08X\n",lpCurrOpcode);
			break;	
		}

		if((1 == nInstrLen) && (0x90 == instruction.opcode))	// skip nops
		{
			lpCurrOpcode ++;

			if(!bJmpPresent)
			{
				dwSkip ++;
			}

			continue;
		}

		if((5 == nInstrLen) && (0xE9 == instruction.opcode))	// if jmp,continue at the destination
		{
			lpCurrOpcode = lpCurrOpcode + 5 + instruction.data_d[0];

			if(!bJmpPresent)
			{
				dwSkip += 5;
				bJmpPresent = TRUE;
			}
			
			continue;
		}

		
		if(nInstrLen <= (nSize - nCounter))
		{
			memcpy(lpBuff + nCounter,tmp,nInstrLen);
			
			lpInstrInfo->address = lpCurrOpcode;
			lpInstrInfo->size = nInstrLen;
			lpInstrInfo ++;
			dwNumOfItem ++;

			lpCurrOpcode += nInstrLen;
			nCounter += nInstrLen;

			if(!bJmpPresent)
			{
				dwSkip += nInstrLen;
			}

			continue;
		}
		else
		{
			if((nSize - nCounter) > 0)
			{
				memcpy(lpBuff + nCounter,tmp,nSize - nCounter);
			}
			
			bRet = TRUE;
			break;
		}
	}	
			  
	return bRet;
}
and a similar function named Intelli_Nop to clear the junkcodes,all i want is to nop all
junkcodes even if they are separated by "lea ebp,[ebp]" or "jmp".

But,when i run the plugin,I always get some exception like
"Access violation at address 011D2348,Read of address 011D2348." and the plugin
can't continue anymore(it has already found and cleared several junkcodes).

When exited IDA,the database was crashed. It seemed to be caused by
the call to get_many_bytes in Intelli_GetManyBytes,if i use try-catch block
i caught nothing. I wrote it with VC6.

So what's my problem? thanks in advance and forgeive my poor english.
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