Software Generalist

Reading Notebook: 07-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.:

Seems the book doesn’t mention Debugging Tools for Windows and WinDbg at all but this is circumvented by the authors’ blog featuring a link and related books. The book uses GDB (primary) and Visual Studio debugger (secondary) for examples.

Larger object files with debug information - Visual C++ can store debugging symbols in separate PDB files

Basic GDB commands (pp. 25-30)

Debugger expression evaluation feature (p. 30) - caught my attention and got a vision of using it for tracking pre-, post-conditions and method invariants

Concurrent Programming on Windows by J. Duffy:

Serialized threads (p. 25)

Data race (p. 26)

Stale read and unrepeatable read (p. 28). The latter happens when a second thread reads too early.

Serializability is not sufficient for correctness. Serialization orders must be legal - need for critical regions (p. 30)

Linearization points - when a batch atomic updates are visible to other threads (p. 30)

CLR AppDomains as intra-process isolation (p. 32)

Cache as an isolated state of master copy (p. 32)

Isolation by convention (p. 32) - commonplace, reminds me guidelines for ownership of COM interfaces

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