diff --git a/Ghidra/Features/PDB/src/main/java/ghidra/app/util/bin/format/pdb/PdbDataTypeParser.java b/Ghidra/Features/PDB/src/main/java/ghidra/app/util/bin/format/pdb/PdbDataTypeParser.java
index 958c90c891..6f2ffdd3c8 100644
--- a/Ghidra/Features/PDB/src/main/java/ghidra/app/util/bin/format/pdb/PdbDataTypeParser.java
+++ b/Ghidra/Features/PDB/src/main/java/ghidra/app/util/bin/format/pdb/PdbDataTypeParser.java
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
  * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- * 
+ *
  *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- * 
+ *
  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
@@ -184,6 +184,17 @@ class PdbDataTypeParser {
 
 		String dataTypeName = datatype;
 
+		// Handle potential malformed datatypes where some datatype is implied
+		// *
+		// **
+		// [16]
+		if (dataTypeName.startsWith("*") || dataTypeName.startsWith("[")) {
+			// prepend undefined since intent is some datatype
+			Msg.warn(this, "dataTypeName \"" + dataTypeName + 
+				"\" references a pointer or array without a declared datatype; assuming undefined");
+			dataTypeName = "undefined" + dataTypeName;
+		}
+
 		// Example type representations:
 		// char *[2][3]     pointer(array(array(char,3),2))
 		// char *[2][3] *   pointer(array(array(pointer(char),3),2))