I was over on the Sysinternals forums and analyzed a crash dump for a member there. The dump turned out to be fascinating and also reminded me just how painful debugging x64 crashes can be…
I was so interested by the crash that I was going to just write up an analysis and dump it here (no pun intended), but I think I’m going to take a bit more of a scientific approach and tackle a couple of important x64 crash dump details/techniques before diving in to the crash. Hopefully that will lead to a more meaningful analysis and help everyone out there that has to work with x64 crashes (which will be all of you eventually!).