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The Art of Debugging with GDB and DDD Paperback – Sep 28 2008

by Norman Matloff (Author), Peter Jay Salzman (Author)

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Debugging is crucial to successful software development, but even many experienced programmers find it challenging. Sophisticated debugging tools are available, yet it may be difficult to determine which features are useful in which situations. The Art of Debugging is your guide to making the debugging process more efficient and effective.

The Art of Debugging illustrates the use three of the most popular debugging tools on Linux/Unix platforms: GDB, DDD, and Eclipse. The text-command based GDB (the GNU Project Debugger) is included with most distributions. DDD is a popular GUI front end for GDB, while Eclipse provides a complete integrated development environment.

In addition to offering specific advice for debugging with each tool, authors Norm Matloff and Pete Salzman cover general strategies for improving the process of finding and fixing coding errors, including how to:

Inspect variables and data structures
Understand segmentation faults and core dumps
Know why your program crashes or throws exceptions
Use features like catchpoints, convenience variables, and artificial arrays
Avoid common debugging pitfalls

Real world examples of coding errors help to clarify the authors' guiding principles, and coverage of complex topics like thread, client-server, GUI, and parallel programming debugging will make you even more proficient. You'll also learn how to prevent errors in the first place with text editors, compilers, error reporting, and static code checkers.

Whether you dread the thought of debugging your programs or simply want to improve your current debugging efforts, you'll find a valuable ally in The Art of Debugging.

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Paperback: 280 pages
Publisher: No Starch Press; 1 edition (Sept. 28 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1593271743
ISBN-13: 978-1593271749
Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 2.3 x 23.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 590 g
Average Customer Review: 1 customer review
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #453,295 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #24 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming > Languages & Tools > Debugging
- #191 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming > Languages & Tools > C
- #199 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming > Software Design, Testing & Engineering > Testing

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Norman Matloff, a computer science professor at UC Davis, is the author of several popular public-domain software packages and online tutorials.

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Just Another

A great introduction.

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Excellent introduction to a wide scope of features. This is a few years out of date, but the features it covers haven't changed significantly.

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A useful book about debugging

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There are not many books about debugging. This one is a useful compendium of the various techniques that any software engineer should know, So if you do not have a reasonable book about debugging, get this one. However, the title says "with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse." The book is mostly about GDB, with about 15% devoted to DDD and 5% devoted to Eclipse. That is probably okay, because it takes much more instruction to do almost any task in GDB than it does in either of the other two. However, Eclipse-only users will probably be disappointed. (There are many other books about Eclipse, but I could not find any specifically devoted to debugging.)

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M. Machado

Spending less time debugging

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I've postponed to dive into gdb before because it seemed to me that the effort wouldn't pay off as much as learning how to code better. Well, gdb doesn't reduce the number of bugs I write, but it certainly reduces the time I spend hunting them down.

If you write lots of code in a language that allows you to use gdb, you probably can save time learning how to use gdb or one of its front-ends. Learning how to use a debugger is not only about learning its options and commands, but how you should use it, and this observation shaped this well-written book.

Currently, I think that one should learn programming with the aid of a debugger. Not only would inspecting exactly what happens at each line be didactic, it would help students immensely later on.

I'd like to see a reviewed version of this book including reverse debugging; feature added after the publication of this book.

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Eric G. Johnfelt

Extremely Useful to Me

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This is a really good guide to GDB. I had to debug a rather complex piece of high performance code and three chapters in I was rocking and rolling...

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Dan Hobson

A good debug read

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This book has been the best tool so far for me to get into the world of Linux programming. It took me farther into software debugging than I've ever been. I will be one of the books I keep in my Kindle for reference.

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