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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.:

watchpoints (data breakpoints), watch and *watch GDB commands (pp. 143 -144) - ba in WinDbg

signals (pp. 144 - 146) - APC on Windows?  Asynchronous exceptions on Windows?

exceptions in C++, catch and throw GDB commands (pp. 147 - 148) - A hint for Visual C++. You need to specify exception model via /EH switch   

reading stack traces, where GDB command (pp. 148 - 153) - k command variants in WinDbg

frames reported as ?? in GDB (pp. 149 - 150) - In WinDbg we have similar cases when PDB files are not available, module code is not present or simply basic frame based linking doesn’t work and WinDbg is not able to reconstruct stack trace. Here we have a message: “WARNING: Frame IP not in any known module. Following frames may be wrong.”

Broken stack traces (pp. 151 - 152) - Here is my case study about manual stack trace reconstruction using WinDbg: http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/07/25/reconstructing-stack-trace-manually/

core dump files (pp. 152 - 153) - For Windows there are plenty of possibilities to get crash dump files. Look for articles in “The Origin of Crash Dumps” chapters in Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 1 and Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 2. WinDbg is the standard tool to analyze crash dumps in technical support. 

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

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 - resume reading tomorrow

- Dmitry Vostokov @ SoftwareGeneralist.com -

           

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