A system and method for determining a structure within a software kernel using an offset and an element is disclosed. The software kernel is received from a third party for debugging operations. Given one or more element and offset pairs, data extracted from the software kernel is searched to produce a list of possible structures to provide additional information during the debugging operations. The data is extracted into tables with symbol table information. The symbol table information is searched using an offset and an element. Structures are identified using this information and, optionally, a structure size may be provided to further limit the possible structures.