Summary
You can expect to encounter complex datatypes in all but the most trivial programs. Understanding how data within complex data structures is accessed and knowing how to recognize clues to the layout of those complex data structures is an essential reverse engineering skill. IDA provides a wide variety of features designed specifically to address the need to deal with complex data structures. Familiarity with these features will greatly enhance your ability to comprehend what data is being manipulated and spend more time understanding how and why that data is being manipulated.
In the next chapter, we round out our discussion of IDA’s basic capabilities with a discussion of cross-references and graphing before moving on to the more advanced ...
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