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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.:

function arguments from stack (pp. 163 - 165) - kv, kP or kp WinDbg; also .frame and dv commands 

p sizeof (int) in GDB (p. 163) - equivalent to ?? sizeof (int) in WinDbg

x/s in GDB (p. 164) - da command in WinDbg; du for UNICODE

info reg in GDB (p. 164) - r command in WinDbg

safe register association with arguments at the beginning of a function (p. 164) - See my Optimized Code pattern: http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2006/12/15/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-5/

The notion of an argument anchor to search for other arguments on a raw stack (p. 164) - very useful technique I used many times

user-defined data types (p. 165) - in the absence of symbols for dt command it is indeed tedious to find field correspondence between headers and binaries  

approximate source code line (pp. 165 - 166) - ln command and, of course, disassembling u, ub and uf WinDbg commands. Beware of OMAP optimization though: http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/2007/04/20/crash-dump-analysis-patterns-part-5b/

stepping through assembly code set step 1, nexti in GDB (pp. 166 - 167) - l-t to switch to assembly mode from source mode and then t or ta (trace to address) WinDbg commands

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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