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Comment by omnigoat

They're calling the Int 3 debugger instruction, I believe:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INT_%28x86_instruction%29

I'd prefer to see this either with inline assembly, or using __debugbreak() (and variants for other compilers). I'd say it's a deref because many compilers don't generate inline-asm for 64-bit skus. This makes the instruction always emitted, and then 64-bit platforms ignore it. But not always (recent claims say it works: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3634124/where-did-int-3-g...).

parent omnigoat 12 years ago

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