This chapter first defines debugging terminology and provides an overview of debugging on Windows NT. Next, it describes setting up the computers for debugging. This chapter goes into how to create a memory dump file, the utilities that you can use to process the memory dump file, and interpreting the information in the memory dump file.
For Windows NT versions 3.51 and 4.0, Windbg, the utility used for reading memory dump files in earlier Windows NT releases, was replaced with a set of utilities that automatically read and interpret memory dump files. These new utilities simplify the process of dealing with kernel memory dump files and aid in sending memory dump files to support personnel for advanced analysis.
New material about the debugger and information about using the output from the Dumpexam utility is also included in this chapter.