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Written by Sy Brand on 2024-12-14 at 00:06

The cover for my book on how debuggers work is here!

Preorders are still 25% off: https://nostarch.com/building-a-debugger

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Written by Sy Brand on 2024-12-04 at 19:39

C++ Wrapped is brutal this year

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Written by Sy Brand on 2024-10-31 at 16:37

Happy Goth Christmas everyone

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Written by Sy Brand on 2024-10-08 at 17:33

Sorry to whoever at Scaleway has to deal with my unhinged support tickets

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Written by Sy Brand on 2024-10-08 at 16:20

Some things in the book I think are cool:

• Walks you through implementing limited expression evaluation, so you can call functions inside the running process

• Teaches you to write a DWARF parser

• Builds a full stack unwinder based on DWARF unwind tables

• Traces shlib loading

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Written by Sy Brand on 2024-10-07 at 21:29

If you've already worked through the chapters of the first Early Access version, I've written a handy upgrade guide that shows you all the code changes you need to make to get up-to-date: https://github.com/TartanLlama/sdb/blob/main/early_access_upgrade.md

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Written by Sy Brand on 2024-10-07 at 21:27

The whole of my book on Building a Debugger is now available on Early Access!

It teaches you how to write a native code debugger from scratch.

There's lots of cats.

https://nostarch.com/building-a-debugger

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Written by Sy Brand on 2024-08-28 at 19:21

Trains

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Written by Sy Brand on 2024-08-28 at 15:07

Preorders of the book are still 25% off https://nostarch.com/building-a-debugger

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Written by Sy Brand on 2024-08-28 at 15:07

The GitHub repository for "Building a Debugger" now has all the code for the early access chapters, including some fixes that'll be in the next update:

https://github.com/TartanLlama/sdb/tree/chapter-10

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Written by Sy Brand on 2024-08-07 at 16:37

Preorders for my book on how debuggers work are 25% off! https://nostarch.com/building-a-debugger

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Written by Sy Brand on 2024-08-05 at 15:12

I think people won't be disappointed

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Written by Sy Brand on 2024-08-02 at 15:37

Preorders are live now, and the first ten chapters are available on Early Access

https://nostarch.com/building-a-debugger

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Written by Sy Brand on 2024-08-02 at 15:33

A wrote a book on how debuggers work!

It guides you through writing a complete native debugger from scratch.

Available Spring 2025 from @nostarch (probably not with this cover)

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