Igor’s Tip of the Week #140: Loading PDB types

While IDA comes with a rich set of type libraries for Windows API, they don’t cover the whole set of types used in Windows. Our libraries are based on the official Windows SDK/DDK headers, which tend to only include public, stable information which is common to multiple Windows versions. A new Windows build may introduce new types or use some of the previously reserved fields. Because some of these structures are critical for proper debugging, Microsoft usually publishes a subset …

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