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diff --git a/development/edb-debugger/README b/development/edb-debugger/README index 9ee724b666..4dfdbd11fc 100644 --- a/development/edb-debugger/README +++ b/development/edb-debugger/README @@ -3,19 +3,20 @@ written on top of the ptrace API. It is built on a plugin-based architecture. Its features include: -*Intuitive GUI interface -*The usual debugging operations (step-into/step-over/run/break) -*Conditional breakpoints -*Debugging core is implemented as a plugin so people can have drop in replacements. - Of course if a given platform has several debugging APIs available, - then you may have a plugin that implements any of them. -*Basic instruction analysis -*View/Dump memory regions -*Effective address inspection -*The data dump view is tabbed, allowing you to have several views of memory open at the same time and quickly switch between them. -*Importing and generation of symbol maps +* Intuitive GUI interface +* The usual debugging operations (step-into/step-over/run/break) +* Conditional breakpoints +* Debugging core is implemented as a plugin so people can have drop-in + replacements. Of course if a given platform has several debugging APIs + available, then you may have a plugin that implements any of them. +* Basic instruction analysis +* View/Dump memory regions +* Effective address inspection +* The data dump view is tabbed, allowing you to have several views of memory + open at the same time and quickly switch between them. +* Importing and generation of symbol maps -*Plugins +* Plugins: Code analysis engine which can identify functions Search for binary strings Code Bookmarks @@ -25,10 +26,12 @@ Its features include: Environment variable viewer Hardware Breakpoints Heap block enumeration - Opcode search engine plugin has basic functionality (similar to msfelfscan/msfpescan) + Opcode search engine plugin has basic functionality (similar to + msfelfscan/msfpescan) Open file enumeration Reference finder String searching (like strings command in *nix) Basic ROP instruction search - -Compared to gdb, edb is more suited to reverse engineering, rather than white-box software debugging. + +Compared to gdb, edb is more suited to reverse engineering, rather than +white-box software debugging. |