The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse by Peter Salzman and Norman Matloff (2008, Trade Paperback, New Edition)

No Starch Press, Incorporated

1593271743

9781593271749

63647990

Peter Salzman, Norman Matloff

Art of Debugging with Gdb, DDD, and Eclipse

Trade Paperback

English

New Edition

Programming / General, Software Development & Engineering / Quality Assurance & Testing, Software Development & Engineering / General, Programming Languages / C

2008

Textbook

Computers

280 Pages

9.2 in

0.9 in

7 in

18.9 Oz

2003-017566

Scholarly & Professional

Qa76.9.D43

New Edition

PREFACE;Chapter 1: SOME PRELIMINARIES FOR BEGINNERS AND PROS; 1.1 Debugging Tools Used in This Book; 1.2 Programming Language Focus; 1.3 The Principles of Debugging; 1.4 Text-Based vs. GUI-Based Debugging Tools, and a Compromise Between Them; 1.5 Main Debugger Operations; 1.6 Online Help; 1.7 Introductory Debugging Session; 1.8 Use of Startup Files;Chapter 2: STOPPING TO TAKE A LOOK AROUND; 2.1 Mechanisms for Pause; 2.2 Overview of Breakpoints; 2.3 Keeping Track of Breakpoints; 2.4 Setting Breakpoints; 2.5 Extended GDB Example; 2.6 Persistence of Breakpoints; 2.7 Deleting and Disabling Breakpoints; 2.8 More on Viewing Breakpoint Attributes; 2.9 Resuming Execution; 2.10 Conditional Breakpoints; 2.11 Breakpoint Command Lists; 2.12 Watchpoints;Chapter 3: INSPECTING AND SETTING VARIABLES; 3.1 Our Main Example Code; 3.2 Advanced Inspection and Setting of Variables; 3.3 Setting Variables from Within GDB/DDD/Eclipse; 3.4 GDB's Own Variables;Chapter 4: WHEN A PROGRAM CRASHES; 4.1 Background Material: Memory Management; 4.2 Core Files; 4.3 Extended Example;Chapter 5: DEBUGGING IN A MULTIPLE-ACTIVITIES CONTEXT; 5.1 Debugging Client/Server Network Programs; 5.2 Debugging Threaded Code; 5.3 Debugging Parallel Applications; 5.4 Extended Example;Chapter 6: SPECIAL TOPICS; 6.1 What If It Doesn't Even Compile or Load?; 6.2 Debugging GUI Programs;Chapter 7: OTHER TOOLS; 7.1 Making Good Use of a Text Editor; 7.2 Making Good Use of the Compiler; 7.3 Error Reporting in C; 7.4 Better Living with strace and ltrace; 7.5 Static Code Checkers: lint and Friends; 7.6 Debugging Dynamically Allocated Memory;Chapter 8: USING GDB/DDD/ECLIPSE FOR OTHER LANGUAGES; 8.1 Java; 8.2 Perl; 8.3 Python; 8.4 Debugging SWIG Code; 8.5 Assembly Language;COLOPHON;

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