Highlights in Beta Version 6.7.5.1
The following changes have been made to Debugging Tools for Windows:
• New Features
• Add %Y{l} format specifier to take a ULONG64 argument and display a source line
• Add $ntdll[w|n]sym built-in aliases
• New command-line options
• Windbg: -lsrcpath to set local source path
• All: -log[a|o]u to generate Unicode log files
• Changes to default configuration
• When loading modules from a user-mode minidump provide available misc and CV record info from dump. This can allow symbols to be loaded in some cases when PE image file is not available.
• .reload with specific module name now defers loading. Force-loading can be done with /f as usual.
• SDK content is now installed by default
• Samples now explicitly default to not building Windows Vista-only
• .remote pipe names may no longer start with '/'
• Change symbol lookup order: root\file, root\extension\file, root\symbols\file. Note that you cannot depend on lookup order remaining unchanged.
• !analyze enhancements
• New and updated commands: .trap, lmDv, .allow_exec_cmds, .pcmd, .dml_file, gu, .fnent, .pagein, dt, bs, bsc, bm
• New options for commands: .foreach, .reload, .dump, .dumpcab, x, uf, ln, .call, .open
• New and updated extensions: !chksym, !cpuid, !dml_proc, !address, !chkimage, !vm, !error
• Source Server
• CVS sample scripts
• Updated documentation
• Additional Symbol Server support
• Allow SymSrvNoProxy to apply to WinInet functionality
• New option to force WinInet or WinHttp regardless of whether Symbol Server is running as a service
• ExtCpp extension improvements
• Allow empty strings as default values
• Add Unicode output methods
• Better Debugging
• Improved handling of IA64 trap frames
• Improved handling of DML content
• Minidump generation improvements
• Improved handling of CABs
• Improved handling of out-of-memory conditions
• Increased symbol functionality
• Bugfixes for EXDI targets
• New and updated Tools
• Kdsrv now automatically uses IPv4 or IPv6
• Updates for AutoDump Plus
• Convertstore: converts a two tier symbol store to a three tier symbol store
