Reading Notebook: 06-Jan-09
Comments in italics are mine and express my own views, thoughts and opinions
Developer’s Guide to Debugging by M. Wloka, et al.:
Test-driving debugging tools (p. 14) - I’ve seen many times indeed when engineers advised on the phone to collect information using certain tools but didn’t try those tools themselves…
Golden output (p. 16) - an output to compare to, reference output
The notion of common bugs that are easily and readily reproducible with test cases (p. 18)
Idealist heisenbug (p. 19) - a bug stemming from invalid optimization code
Secret bugs (p. 20) - I’ve seen that many times when customers do not send crash dumps due to security reasons. If this is because they cannot inspect binary contents for potential information leaks I devised a way to instruct a debugger to output textual log files with information relevant for at least problem identification.
Concurrent Programming on Windows by J. Duffy:
Handcrafted semi transactional system, importance of state in-the-small and shared memory dependance (p. 13)
State management: isolation | immutability | synchronization (p. 14)
Control vs. data synchronization (p. 14)
What is a state? (p. 15) - I define a state as an memory snapshot at a given time where memory is taken in a broad sense including processor(s) state as well
The transitive nature of state sharing, data privatization and publication (p. 15) - From Windows kernel perspective everything is shared
A reference to escape analysis techniques and ownership types (p. 19)
Critical region as a simulation of atomic r/w not possible in hardware (p. 21)
- Dmitry Vostokov @ SoftwareGeneralist.com -
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