Support reading from segment:offset pairs

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
devtools, reverse-engineering

Research direction

Start at DebuggerMemory::ReadMemory(), which the issue identifies as the integration point, and inspect its existing callers and interface. Define how segment:offset pairs should be supplied for FS/GS while retaining the current CS/DS/ES behavior, then verify reads against the OS-specific structures described in the issue.

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Description

Effort: Low enhancement functionality Impact: Low

This is required for accessing OS specific structures like PEB/TEB which will be useful for any anti-anti-debugger code (e.g. porting ScyllaHide or similar) via FS/GS

This can be added in DebuggerMemory::ReadMemory() as an extra parameter (could be overloaded to retain the existing interface which defaults to CS/DS/ES assuming these are the same)

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