Debugging Tools

To perform this procedure, you will use the Debugging Tools for Windows, available for free download from the Microsoft WKD and Developer Tools web pages. To find the download site, search the Web for a string similar to "Install Debugging Tools for Windows 32-bit Version" and download and install the following version or later, taking all defaults: "Current Release version 6.6.7.5 - July 18, 2006".

From the Debugging Tools for Windows, you will use the following programs:

• WinDbg.exe: A heap-level debugging program similar to the Visual C++ debugger. Using WinDbg, you can set breakpoints in source and assembly code, display the values of variables, dump heap memory into a file, and analyze such a dump offline.
• GFlags.exe: A heap debug program. Using GFlags, you can establish standard, /full, or /dlls heap options that will force the operating system to generate access violations and corruption errors when your program overwrites heap memory.