Beej's Quick Guide to GDB

One for the 0801 students...

to ag0801 debugging gdb teaching ... on 21 May 2011

an obscure kernel feature to get more info about dying processes at time to bleed by Joe Damato

Doing more interesting things when a process coredumps.

to debugging linux ... on 01 October 2010

How to be a programmer

A pleasantly anecdotal selection of advice for professional programmers. Worth pointing students at, although some of it's a bit dated now.

to debugging programming teaching ... on 10 August 2010

Chris's Wiki :: blog/linux/SystemTapSetuidTracing

Building a partial strace replacement with SystemTap. Cute, but this doesn't give you most of the smart decoding strace does (which is what makes it better than its equivalents on every other Unix-like).

to debugging linux strace systemtap tracing ... on 01 August 2009

MzTake

FRP-based debugger for MzScheme. Matt mentioned this as an example of a really neat debugging system; it'd be interesting to do something similar for occam programs.

to debugging research scheme software ... on 17 July 2009

HOOD

A Haskell debugging tool; designed for inspecting data structures.

to debugging haskell research software ... on 10 November 2006

PytStop debugging engine

A debugger backend module for Python, so you can do gdb-style debugging operations on another binary from a Python program. This could be really cool to use for an occam debugger.

to debugging python research software ... on 05 April 2006

Remake - GNU Make with comprehensible tracing and a debugger

Just what it says. How odd.

to build debugging software ... on 26 December 2005

SystemTap Page

Another DTrace clone for Linux.

to debugging kernel linux software ... on 18 November 2005