Re: Books on Debuggers

Joe <joe@burgershack.net>
29 Apr 2004 12:09:57 -0400

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Mohd Hanafiah Abdullah wrote:
>
> Could anyone please recommend any good books on how to write a debugger?
...

The only book I've seen is "How Debuggers Work : Algorithms, Data
Structures, and Architecture", by Jonathan Rosenberg. It appears to
be a survey book, as opposed to an exhaustive study.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471149667/qid=1083252543/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/002-5841822-7023264?v=glance&s=books

You might also look into the documentation on gdb:

http://www.gnu.org/directory/GNU/gdb.html

especially:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/

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