Re: How do debuggers work?

pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Wed, 4 Dec 91 03:04:38 GMT

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From: pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Keywords: debug
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
References: 91-12-003
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 91 03:04:38 GMT

"Erwinus Theodorus Leonardus Omtzigt (Theo)" <omtzigt-theo@CS.YALE.EDU> writes:
>[How do debuggers work? What does `cc -g' do?]


Most papers on debugging discuss details such as debugging optimized code.
The only paper I know of that describes the path of symbols from the
compiler in to the debugger (and then, only at a high level) is:


%A Mark Linton
%T The Evolution of dbx
%J Proceedings of the Summer USENIX Conference, Anaheim, California
%D June 1990
%P 211-220


;-D on ( How do bugs work? ) Pardo
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