Monthly Archives: March 2016

On API-MS-WIN-XXXXX.DLL, and Other Dependency Walker Glitches

Posted on March 27, 2016 by Ofek Shilon

Dependency walker is the tool of choice for static dependency analysis of native binaries (it has some dynamic analysis too, but that niche at least has some alternative solutions). It is in a rather sorry state, however – development seems … Continue reading →

Posted in Win32 | 22 Comments

Data Read Breakpoints – redux

Posted on March 12, 2016 by Ofek Shilon

The Problem ~5Y ago I blogged about data breakpoints. A hefty bit of the discussion was devoted to persistence of hardware breakpoints across a thread switch: all four implementations mentioned assume that HW breakpoints persist across thread boundaries, and some rough … Continue reading →

Posted in Debugging, Visual Studio | 1 Comment