Software Diagnostics Library

Don’t give your modules and build folders funny names. When your application or system crashes people will laugh. Recently had seen a driver build path (PDB paths, !dh command) involving words “dust”, “devil” and “missile”. A missile driver may sound like a winner against competitors but looks funny in a crash dump WinDbg output. Another case was a module having words “screw” and “driver” in lmv command output.

Another piece of advice is not to name your modules “fault tolerant”. This looks funny on crash stacks:

STACK_TEXT: 
0016f0ac 776d1faf ntdll!RtlpLowFragHeapFree+0x31
0016f0c4 655b9ed9 ntdll!RtlFreeHeap+0x105
0016f0dc 7650f1cc ModuleA!FaultTolerantHeap::FreeHeap+0x61
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- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -

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