Re: How to study debugger internals ?

Giridhar S <thisisgiri@gmail.com>
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:26:20 -0800

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From: Giridhar S <thisisgiri@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:26:20 -0800
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 10-03-022
Keywords: debug
Posted-Date: 15 Mar 2010 01:06:24 EDT

You can start off by looking at the man page for the ptrace system
call, which is present on most UNIX flavors.


Debugger implementations such as gdb use the ptrace system call to
control the execution of the process being debugged (breakpoints,
single-stepping, etc) and the debug info (if any) generated by the
compiler to provide support for symbolic debugging.


-Giridhar


On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Ripunjay Tripathi
<ripunjay.tripathi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Want to study debuggers internals. Though I understand that they are
> very much platform dependent, knowledge of internals for gdb and dbx
> (for Intel/ARM) I believe should give me good understanding.

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