Re: book on internals of debugger?

thutt@clark.net (Taylor Hutt)
Tue, 23 Nov 1993 12:43:42 GMT

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From: thutt@clark.net (Taylor Hutt)
Keywords: debug, books
Organization: Oberon Liberation Organization, MD USA
References: 93-11-127 93-11-136
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1993 12:43:42 GMT

>On Mon, 22 Nov 1993, Mark Lacey wrote:
> I've never seen a book on writing debuggers.


Andrew Tucker <a_tucker@paul.spu.edu> wrote:
>Ronald Mak's book "Writing Compilers and Interpreters" talks about
>writing an interactive debugger for a subset of Pascal. The discussion
>is specific to DOS, however.


I've commented on this book in the past, but I feel the compulsion to do
it again. Ronald Mak's book is so bad that it will cause damage if you
really expect to get the code working. This book is the absolute worst
book I have ever encountered about compilers. The code in the book will
not work as published, and even if it did, the generated code has no hope
of working either (trace thru to see what code will be generated by hand).


All in all, avoid this book at all costs! I am extremely sorry I bought
this book, and I don't even keep it on my bookshelf.


Taylor Hutt
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