[Haifux] my attempt for a new endeavour: debugging2day - Linux/C/C++-centric debugging methodologies online E-zine

[Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda]

On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 2:41 AM, guy keren <guy.choo.keren at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> for want of a shorter name ;)
>
> i started this last year, then got a little lazy - and now that the world
> didn't come to an end, decided to give it a second go - and this time, even
> tell people about this :0
>
>
> http://debugging2day.**wordpress.com/<http://debugging2day.wordpress.com/>
>
> if anyone has comments, or has ideas or requests for article topics
> (assuming they are within my grasp) - feel free to share.
>

This is terrific!

Ideas/requests:
*Parallel debugging - debugging of programs compiled with MPI and/or openMP.
*Profiling - in particular caveats where you might think you are profiling,
but you are actually making an impact on the measured program.
*Attaching to a program that is already running when it hangs, reading its
strace, understanding the problem from the trace of syscalls.
*Figuring out the machine topology and how it is related to program
performance (lstopo, who has which cache, is the machine NUMA or SMP, who
shares which cache)
*Figuring out compilation errors in C++
*Figuring out building errors and debugging makefiles,
in particular linkage errors with dynamic libraries, naming conventions
(major/minor versions), how to specify a particular minor version, how to
specify an LD path and make the program compile when there are alternatives
for the same dynamic library.

I saw that there is a  Windows-oriented course for debugging C
applications. I think there should be a market for a Linux one. I know of
several people who will want to attend such a course and pay for it.


> thanks,
> --guy
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Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda.
http://ladypine.org
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