Writing a Primitive Debugger: Part 2 (Breakpoints/Stepping) « RCE EndeavorsFor a debugger to be of any practical use, it needs the ability to pause, inspect, and resume a target process. This post will cover these topics by discussing what breakpoints are, how they are implemented by most debuggers on the x86 and x64 Windows platforms, and how to perform instruction level stepping. Breakpoints A breakpoint can simply be defined as a place in a executing code that causes
