Archive for April, 2006

Worth Programmer’s Pain

Monday, April 10th, 2006

Mark Roddy, a regular contributer to NTDEV, sent a pretty funny comment about WPP to the list:

And when it gets to Vista it appears to have a recoverable kernel ringbuffer, which makes it fairly complete in terms of providing a crash analysis runtime trace tool.

Bottom line: WPP = Worth Programmer’s Pain.

I guess it’s about time that I give WPP another try. I’ve never been able to talk myself into spending the time to get it working, because if I remember correctly, there’s limited support for manipulating that ring buffer, or somesuch. It’s been too long since I looked into it. Next driver…