While idsutils and loadint may not seem immediately useful to you, you will learn to appreciate their capabilities once you begin to step outside IDA’s more common use cases. For a relatively small investment of time, the creation of a single .ids or .til file can save you countless hours whenever you encounter the libraries described by those files in future projects. Keep in mind that it is not possible for IDA to ship with descriptions for every library in existence. The intended purpose of the tools covered in this chapter is to provide you with the flexibility to address gaps in IDA’s library coverage whenever you stray off IDA’s beaten path.