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GetCurrentThreadAddr function (wdbgexts.h)

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The GetCurrentThreadAddr function returns the location of the system data that describes the current thread.

Syntax

void GetCurrentThreadAddr(
  DWORD    Processor,
  PULONG64 Address
);

Parameters

Processor

Specifies the index of the thread whose system data will be returned.

In kernel-mode debugging, this is the index of a virtual thread, which is the index of a processor on the target computer.

Address

Receives the location of the system data for the thread.

Return value

None

Remarks

In user-mode debugging, GetCurrentThreadAddr returns the location of the thread's Thread Environment Block (TEB). This is the same location that GetTebAddress returns.

In kernel-mode debugging, GetCurrentThreadAddr returns the location of the KTHREAD structure of the operating system thread that was executing on the processor when the last event occurred.

For details on the KTHREAD and TEB structures, see Microsoft Windows Internals by David Solomon and Mark Russinovich.

Requirements

Requirement Value
Target Platform Desktop
Header wdbgexts.h (include Wdbgexts.h, Dbgeng.h)

See also

GetTebAddress