Re: book on internals of debugger?

> Could anyone please recommand me a book/literature/course on internals
> of debugger.


I'd suggest checking out "Understanding and Using COFF" as a starting
point. It is by Gintaras R. Gircys, and published by O'Reilly &
Associates, Inc. (ISBN 0-937175-31-5) It isn't going to tell you about
the steps that the debugger goes through in a lot of detail, but the
sections on symbolic debugging support will give you some idea at how you
would go about doing the things that need to be done. Looking at the
source for GDB might not be a bad idea, either, though I've found that it
is fairly hard to follow (this was an old version...I'm not sure if newer
versions are cleaned up much if at all).


>[Are these collected in a book anywhere, or are they all just folklore?
-John]


I've never seen a book on writing debuggers.
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Mark M. Lacey
[lacey@zamboni.sps.mot.com]
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