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Time Travel Debugging

I was wondering whether there are any tools that allow to step through unmanaged and native code backwards when we do crash dump analysis or live debugging on Windows platforms and found these interesting references from Microsoft Research:

It would be really good if Microsoft integrates this into Debugging Tools for Windows. 

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

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3 Responses to “Time Travel Debugging”

  1. Marc Sherman Says:
    March 10th, 2008 at 2:31 pm

    You might be interested in this:
    http://blogs.vmware.com/sherrod/2007/04/the_amazing_vm_.html

    It’s record/replay with vmware and gdb.

    Marc

  2. Dmitry Vostokov Says:
    March 10th, 2008 at 5:15 pm

    Interesting stuff. Thanks! Dmitry

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    August 8th, 2008 at 12:20 am

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