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Google Summer of Code Report - Pwndbg 2024

This summer, I worked on Pwndbg, a GDB dashboard popular among reverse-engineers and exploit developers, and something I use nearly every weekend for CTF. Pwndbg allows you to quickly see the state of CPU registers and stack memory, provides a view of the disassembled machine instructions near the instruction pointer, and offers powerful context and control while debugging binaries. Debugging and reverse engineering binary programs with debuggers is typically a challenging and laborious process due to the substantial effort required to relate the actions of assembly instructions with the higher-level constructs at play, such as control flow and variable state mutations.