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Extending windbg with Page Fault Breakpoints

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Take advantage of the memory page access flag, and set a new kind of breakpoint
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Architect Visma Software AB
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Mattias works at Visma, a leading Nordic ERP solution provider. He has good knowledge in C++/.Net development, test tool development, and debugging. His great passion is memory dump analysis. He likes giving talks and courses.

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