Ancestors

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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Toot

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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Descendants

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 orphadel on 2024-10-09 at 22:35

@TartanLlama what’s the target audience in terms of programming level ? Beginners, medium, senior programmers ?

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Written by Sy Brand on 2024-10-10 at 07:38

@orphadel intermediate and above I'd say. I try to keep things accessible, but some of the concepts are intrinsically complex

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