Wednesday, January 18, 2006

How to use memory dump to trace bug



How to use memory dump to trace bug - The Code Project - Debug tips
Catching and analyzing a memory dump file is important. This article teaches you how to use hands-on tools to catch and read memory dump files.

The hands-on tools are :-

* Dr. Watson, which is included by almost all the windows systems.
* VC6 and VC7 compiler, we need to recompile the project to generate Map files and COM files for tracing the bug.
* Dumpchk can check dump file, before you are going to send it.
* Windbg and kd can give you detailed information about the spot when exception occurred. Symbol files are always necessary for debugging dump files.

No comments: