Debugging Tools for Windows

GetInstructionOffset2

The GetInstructionOffset2 method returns the location of the current thread's current instruction.

HRESULT
  IDebugRegisters2::GetInstructionOffset2(
    IN ULONG  Source,
    OUT PULONG64  Offset
    );

Parameters

Source

Specifies the register source to query.

The possible values are listed in the following table.

Value	Register source
DEBUG_REGSRC_DEBUGGEE	Fetch register information from the target.
DEBUG_REGSRC_EXPLICIT	Fetch register information from the current explicit register context.
DEBUG_REGSRC_FRAME	Fetch register information from the current scope's register context. Note Stack unwinding does not guarantee accurate updating of the register context, so the scope frame's register context might not be accurate in all cases.

Offset

Receives the location in the process's virtual address space of the current instruction of the current thread.

Return Value

S_OK: The method was successful.

This list does not contain all the errors that might occur. For a list of possible errors, see HRESULT Values.

Interface Version

GetInstructionOffset2 is available in IDebugRegisters2 and later versions.

Comments

The meaning of the value that is returned by this method is architecture-dependent. In particular, for an Itanium-based processor, the virtual address that is returned can indicate an address within a bundle.

The method GetInstructionOffset performs the same task as this method but always uses the target as the register source.

For an overview of the IDebugRegisters interface and other register-related methods, see Registers.

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