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Author Topic: Read/write/execute Access On A Memorysegment, For Writing A Debugger.  (Read 86 times)

joohan

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Read/write/execute Access On A Memorysegment, For Writing A Debugger.
« on: February 08, 2010, 04:34:00 AM »
If there is any way of getting READ/WRITE/EXECUTE access on a memory range?

If that would be possible then writing a GDB server with the xdk would be possible.
This would mean almost full debugging support using a standard non dev box.

PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE is not implemented in the SDK, so we need a workaround for that.
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lantus

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Read/write/execute Access On A Memorysegment, For Writing A Debugger.
« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2010, 07:48:00 AM »
not possible right now thanks to the Hypervisor. I've heard of some ideas and theories being thrown around but no workaround exists currently.


this is also a stumbling block for emulators that use dynarecs



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joohan

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Read/write/execute Access On A Memorysegment, For Writing A Debugger.
« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2010, 08:25:00 AM »
Ok, good to know.

But then if there is some smart people looking in to this then one might guess that a solution to the problem is on the way.

If so then I'll go ahead and code a debug monitor so it is ready when the hypervisor gets patched.
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