Monthly Archives: May 2005

One of the things that I’ve been using a lot lately is memory access breakpoints.  I’ve found them really helpful for tracking down some ref-counting bugs, but they’re also great for catching data corruption. The basic idea is this – … Continue reading →

Windbg and friends has a default initial breakpoint that gets called after dependant dlls have been loaded so that you can get right to business debugging your app – but what if you want to debug the loading of those … Continue reading →

t ; z (@eax != 0x8007000EL) What does this cryptic command do for you?  I was recently helping a friend debug a failure where an error hresult was returned but it was the kind of error that could have been coming … Continue reading →