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A tale of two asserts

Posted by Satya Das
October 1, 2009

There are two popular ways to assert in drivers. One can use the the regular ASSERT macro (int 3) or the relatively newer NT_ASSERT macro (int 2C). Since ASSERT calls RtlAssert, when the debugger breaks in, code would be several frames off of where the ASSERT was. If you use NT_ASSERT however, the debugger would [...]