Software Generalist

Reading Notebook: 21-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.:

How Profilers Work section (pp. 73 - 74) - good addition to How Debugger Work books. I think detouring can also used for profiling in real-time, like famous MOV EDI, EDI in Windows

2 core profiler areas: collecting and presenting data (p. 73)

profiler sampling (interrupt and collect stack traces) and instrumentation data collection approaches (p. 73) - The problem with sampling is that most threads wait during their life time, so it is more useful only for CPU-intensive apps

flat profile and call graph presentation techniques (p. 74)

Callgrind as part of Valgrind (pp. 81 - 82)

Advanced Windows Debugging by M. Hewardt and D. Pravat:

I resume this book reading from page 328 after very long pause.

!token -n (pp. 329 - 330) - command shows no impersonation if it fails to get one

SD pointer in an object header is a pseudo-pointer with the first 3 bits used for a different purpose (p. 331)

ISC/ASC client impersonation sequence for remote authentication (p. 335) - possible UML sequence diagram for my book Windows Internals Distilled

The importance of impersonation level in a token (pp. 337 - 338)

Concurrent Programming on Windows by J. Duffy:

Software Factories by J. Greenfield, et. al.:

Software Engineering Foundations: A Software Science Perspective, by Y. Wang:

Didn’t have time today to read these 3 books because of the work on my next book “Windows Debugging: Practical Foundations”