As with the first edition, I would like to thank my family for putting up with me while I worked on this project. I am ever grateful for their patience and tolerance.

I would also like to thank everyone who helped make the first edition a success, in particular the readers who I hope have found it to be a useful addition to their reverse engineering libraries. Without your support and many kind words, this edition would never have been possible.

Once again I wish to thank my technical editor Tim Vidas for all of his input over the course of this project, as well as his wife Sheila for allowing me to borrow him a second time.

Thanks also to the developers at Hex-Rays, not only for the product you have built but also for putting up with my “bug” reports, too many of which turned out to be false alarms. Ilfak, you have as usual been more than generous with your time; Elias, Igor, and Daniel, you have all provided insights that I could have obtained nowhere else. Together you all make IDA my favorite piece of software.

Finally, I would like to thank Alison Law and everyone else at No Starch Press for their hard work in keeping this version of the book moving along as smoothly as I could ever have hoped.