Debugging walkthrough: Access violation on nonsense instruction, episode 3

This article discusses a case of access violations occurring across multiple unrelated programs, analyzing crash dumps to identify the underlying issue. It highlights the importance of recognizing invalid code execution in debugging.

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A customer reported that their employees were randomly getting “memory write errors”.

This was their way of interpreting the error message

The instruction at “XX” referenced memory at “YY”. The memory could not be “written”.

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