How do you teach an old dog new tricks? That’s the topic of today’s post. “WinDbg” is short for “Windows Debugger”, but lately that name seems a bit odd since the WinDbg of today knows about a lot more than just Windows. WinDbg now supports Linux and MacOS crash dump targets, as well as few things that are a bit of a hybrid, like Open Enclave debugging. The core “debug engine” behind WinDbg is called “DbgEng”, and it’s been a Windows-centric debugging engine for decades.
