The IDA Pro Book, 2nd Edition

Useful IDC Functions

At this point, you have all the information required to write well-formed IDC scripts. What you are lacking is the ability to perform any useful interaction with IDA itself. IDC provides a long list of built-in functions that offer many different ways to access a database. All of the functions are documented to some degree in the IDA help system under the topic Index of IDC functions. In most cases, the documentation is nothing more than relevant lines copied from the main IDC include file, idc.idc. Becoming comfortable with the rather terse documentation is one of the more frustrating aspects of learning IDC. In general, there is no easy way to answer the question “How do I do x in IDC?” The most common way to figure out ...