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Comments in italics are mine and express my own views, thoughts and opinions

Developer’s Guide to Debugging by M. Wloka, et al.:

DLL-specifc problems (pp. 122 -127) - For Windows, I’ve identified 2 patterns so far: http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/04/22/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-59/ and http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/06/12/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-59b/

-fPIC flag for GCC to generate position independent code for dynamic linking and -shared flag to generate .so files (p. 123)

ldd utility on UNIX to find required .so files (p. 124) - On Windows it can be Dependency Walker (depends.exe)

Incorrect search order problems (p. 124) - See also my pattern for Windows: http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2008/06/19/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-64/

Analyzing loader issues, LD_DEBUG on UNIX (pp. 125 - 126) - On Windows it can be loader snap in option in gflags.exe and !dlls WinDbg command

shared library GDB command (p. 126) - corresponding WinDbg command lmv

break GDB command (p. 126) - corresponding b* commands in WinDbg

pending breakpoints (pp. 126 - 127) - corresponding deferred or unresolved breakpoints in WinDbg (bu command)

ptype and info function commands in GDB to list class methods and overloaded functions (pp. 130 and 131)

breakpoints in C++ templates, function signatures for instantiated templates vs. source code lines (pp. 131 - 132) - I need to check this with WinDbg

info breakpoints GDB command (p. 132) - corresponding WinDbg commands are bl and .bpcmds

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

Implicit CoInitializeSecurity with EOAC_APPID (p. 365)

ole32!g* variables (p. 366)

Client callback interfaces make gives a client a server role (p. 367)

DCOM failure logging registry keys (p. 367)

Concurrent Programming on Windows by J. Duffy:

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

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

Stiil busy to read last 3 books. Hope to resume them tomorrow.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ SoftwareGeneralist.com -

           

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