Igor’s Tip of the Week #178: Field representation attributes

In the past, we’ve seen how structure instance representation can be changed by editing the structure in the Structures window. In IDA 8.4, a new unified view was introduced for Local Types and the same operations can (and should) be done in that window. Instead of comments, additional custom attributes are printed now:

In addition to the shortcuts (H, A and so on) and “Field type” submenu actions, you can also use the C syntax editor to add or edit …

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