Preamble

A collection of notes about debugging applications under Linux and related topics. Probably useful for debugging dogs. Partly applicable to other Unices. Work in progress.

Authors

Aurelian Melinte

Table of Contents

  1. The debugger
  2. The dynamic linker
  3. Core files
  4. The call stack
  5. The interposition library
  6. Memory issues
    1. Leaks
    2. Heap corruption
    3. Stack corruption
  7. Deadlocks
  8. Race conditions
  9. Resource leaks
  10. Transactional memory
  11. The compiler
  12. Aiming for and measuring performance
  13. Hardware emulators
  14. Building the toolkit
  15. Appendices
  16. References and further reading
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