Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 16

This reference volume consists of revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized articles from Software Diagnostics Institute and Software Diagnostics Library (former Crash Dump Analysis blog) about software diagnostics, root cause analysis, debugging, crash and hang dump analysis, software trace and log analysis written from 15 April 2023 to 14 April 2024.

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Compared to the volume 15, the volume 16 features:

17 new crash dump analysis patterns
13 new software trace and log analysis patterns
New defect mechanism pattern
Introduction to Lov language
Lists of recommended books

The primary audience for Memory Dump Analysis Anthology reference volumes (Diagnomicon) is software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows and Linux platforms, technical support, escalation, site reliability, and cloud engineers dealing with complex software issues, DevOps and DevSecOps, quality assurance engineers testing software, security and vulnerability researchers, reverse engineers, malware and memory forensics analysts.

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Dmitry Vostokov

Dmitry Vostokov is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, educator, scientist, inventor, and author. He founded the pattern-oriented software diagnostics, forensics, and prognostics discipline (Systematic Software Diagnostics) and Software Diagnostics Institute. Vostokov has also authored over 50 books on software diagnostics, anomaly detection and analysis, software and memory forensics, root cause analysis and problem solving, memory dump analysis, debugging, software trace and log analysis, reverse engineering, and malware analysis. He has over 30 years of experience in software architecture, design, development, and maintenance in various industries, including leadership, technical, and people management roles. Dmitry founded OpenTask Iterative and Incremental Publishing and Software Diagnostics Technology and Services (former Memory Dump Analysis Services). In his spare time, he explores Software Narratology and Quantum Software Diagnostics. His interest areas are theoretical software diagnostics and its mathematical and computer science foundations, application of formal logic, semiotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data mining to diagnostics and anomaly detection, software diagnostics engineering and diagnostics-driven development, diagnostics workflow and interaction. Recent interest areas also include functional programming, cloud native computing, monitoring, observability, visualization, security, automation, applications of category theory to software diagnostics, development and big data, and diagnostics of artificial intelligence.

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Table of Contents

Preface 7

About the Author 8

PART 1: Crash Dump Analysis Patterns 9

Managed Code Exception (Scala) and Managed Stack Trace (Scala) 9

Managed Code Exception (Python) and Managed Stack Trace (Python) 10

Runtime Thread (Python, Linux) 11

Exception Collection 13

Dereference Nearpoint 14

Address Representations 15

Annotated Disassembly (Unmanaged Code) 16

Near Exception 17

Shadow Stack Trace 20

Past Process 22

Foreign Stack 23

Annotated Stack Trace 25

Disassembly Summary 28

Region Summary 29

Analysis Summary 33

Region Spectrum 38

Normalized Region 39

PART 2: Software Trace Analysis Patterns 41

Trace Tessellation 41

Canonical Trace 43

Trace Benchmark 44

Trace Graph 46

Trace Amplitude 48

Trace Class 49

Trace Volume 51

Trace Temperature 52

Trace Pressure 53

Trace Lattice 54

Trace Bias 55

Trace Variance 57

Message Kinetics 58

PART 3: Software Diagnostics, Root Cause Analysis, Troubleshooting, and Debugging 61

Introducing Lov Language 61

Carnot Cycle Metaphor for Trace and Log Analysis 63

Defect Mechanism Patterns (DMP), Part 1 64

Attention 65

ERROR ALERT! The World of Trace and Log Analysis 66

PART 4: Fun with Debugging, Crash Dumps, and Traces 71

Debugging Slang 71

STEM 71

WIT 71

LIT 71

Software Development Dream 72

Structures | Bugs | Effects | Debuggers 73

Early Dump Analysis 74

PART 5: Art and Photography 75

Classification Anomaly 75

Debuggers and Weather 76

Cartoons from GPT-4 79

BSOD 83

WinDbg Driver 84

Rust vs. C++ 85

Moon 86

PART 6: Miscellaneous 87

Quotes 87

My Favorite Category Theory Books (Continuation) 88

Books That Influenced Me 92

Data Science, AI, ML Books 107

Logic Books 115

Quantum Books 117

Weekly IT (WIT) Books 120

Other Books 130

Reflections on 2023 146

Nonlinear Multiple Regression in 1994 147

Complex Exploration 151

Discman 152

Voice Mouse Demo 153

Windows System Programming 154

Cats and Categories 155

Localized Categories 155

Interest is Explainable 156

Interviews as Discussions 157

Commutative Learning Diagram 158

Books as a Standing Desk 159

Software Factory in 1999 160

At Home with Rational Unified Process 161

My Book on a Shelf 162

Irish Embassy, Moscow 163

Between Voltaire and Weber 165

Software Diagnostic Quackery 166

Intel Insides 167

Appendix 169

Region Patterns 169

Index of WinDbg Commands 170

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