Tag: winDbg — 80s/90s retrowave notes from the vault

WinDbg Patching Arguments at Runtime

2026-09-22

# WinDbg Patching Arguments at Runtime When a function is about to receive a bad argument (e.g. `NULL` filename passed to `__loaddll`), you can fix the pointer value on [[Stack F…

Function Thunks and Stubs

2026-08-17

# Function Thunks and Stubs A **thunk** (also called a *stub* or *trampoline*) is a tiny function whose only purpose is to forward execution to another function. It does little o…