A kernel debugger is a debugger present in some operating system kernels to ease debugging and kernel development by the kernel developers. A kernel debugger...
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SoftICE (redirect from Kernel mode debugger)
SoftICE is a kernel mode debugger for DOS and Windows up to Windows XP. It is designed to run underneath Windows, so that the operating system is unaware...
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The GNU Debugger (GDB) is a portable debugger that runs on many Unix-like systems and works for many programming languages, including Ada, Assembly, C...
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Comparison of debuggers Core dump Kernel debugger List of tools for static code analysis Memory debugger Packet analyzer Profiling Time travel debugging GNU Debugger...
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WinDbg (category Debuggers)
device drivers, and the operating system itself in kernel mode. Like the Visual Studio Debugger, WinDbg has a graphical user interface (GUI), but is...
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kernel is a computer program at the core of a computer's operating system that always has complete control over everything in the system. The kernel is...
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NTLDR (section NT kernel switches)
debug port. (This action turns on remote debugging.) /DEBUG – Turns on the kernel debugger when Windows starts. Unlike the /CRASHDEBUG switch, /DEBUG...
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Kernel documentation". Kernel.org. Archived from the original on 4 December 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2020. "Using kgdb, kdb and the kernel debugger internals"...
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KGDB (category Third-party Linux kernel modules)
Free and open-source software portal KGDB is a debugger for the Linux kernel and the kernels of NetBSD and FreeBSD. It requires two machines that are...
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an error message to the console, dump an image of kernel memory to disk for post-mortem debugging, and then either wait for the system to be manually...
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A kernel is a component of a computer operating system. It serves as an intermediary connecting software to hardware, enabling them to work together seamlessly...
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application-level debuggers. In the CodeView debugger, it was sometimes used to break into the debugging during program execution. For the Windows NT remote kernel debugger...
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file may be debugged later, using a kernel debugger. For Windows, WinDBG or KD debuggers from Debugging Tools for Windows are used. A debugger is necessary...
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January 2018. Shankland, Stephen (1 July 2005). "Novell introduces Linux kernel debugger". CNet. Shankland, Stephen (17 February 2003). "Intel, Red Hat cure...
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DragonFly BSD (section Kernel)
other BSD kernels (and those of most modern operating systems), DragonFly employs a built-in kernel debugger to help the developers find kernel bugs. Furthermore...
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Magic SysRq key (category Linux kernel features)
The magic SysRq key is a key combination understood by the Linux kernel, which allows the user to perform various low-level commands regardless of the...
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seen when using homebrew. Kernel Debugging Land is the name of the Kernel Debugger users of Haiku and BeOS see when a kernel crash happens. Wikimedia Commons...
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written in C++ and provides an object-oriented API. The Haiku kernel is a modular hybrid kernel which began as a fork of NewOS, a modular monokernel written...
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patchless kernel debugging, and real-time computing (RT) systems for Linux. Unusually among HALs, Adeos can be loaded as a Linux loadable kernel module to allow...
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for State Security (Ukraine) Kdb+, a database server KDB, a Linux kernel debugger Kambalda Airport, IATA airport code "KDB" Kidbrooke railway station...
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Magic number (programming) (redirect from Magic debug values)
integer would take this specific value, the appearance of such a number in a debugger or memory dump most likely indicates an error such as a buffer overflow...
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NetBSD (redirect from NetBSD kernel)
an in-kernel application sandbox based on kauth(9), with sandbox policies provided as Lua scripts. NetBSD provides a minimalist kernel debugger — DDB(4)...
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CodeXL (section GPU debugger)
archived" CodeXL's GPU debugger allows engineers to debug OpenGL and OpenCL API calls and runtime objects, and debug OpenCL kernels: set breakpoints, step...
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processes can request the kernel to map part of another process's memory space to their own, as is the case for debuggers. Programs can also request...
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Core dump (category Debugging)
versions of Unix did not support attaching debuggers to running processes, so core dumps were necessary to run a debugger on a process's memory contents. Core...
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well-known. Next, if a kernel debugger is connected and active when the bug check occurs, the system will break into the debugger where the cause of the...
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Vmlinux (category Linux kernel)
required for kernel debugging, symbol table generation or other operations, but must be made bootable before being used as an operating system kernel by adding...
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Mach (/mɑːk/) is an operating system kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University by Richard Rashid and Avie Tevanian to support operating system research...
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in certain versions of Microsoft Access databases MDB, a kernel debugger for the Linux kernel. MDB, the NASDAQ ticker symbol for MongoDB, a database management...
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remotely debug systems, for example. This can also provide a serial console through which the in-kernel debugger can be dropped to in case of kernel panics...
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