Linux Applications Debugging Techniques

Preamble

A collection of notes about debugging applications under Linux and related topics. Probably useful for debugging dogs. Partly applicable to other Unices. Work in progress, code is now on github.

Authors

Aurelian Melinte

Table of Contents

1. The debugger
2. The dynamic linker
3. Core files
4. The call stack
5. The interposition library
6. Memory issues
   1. Leaks
   2. Heap corruption
   3. Stack corruption
7. Signals
8. Deadlocks
9. Race conditions
10. Resource leaks
11. Transactional memory
12. The compiler
13. Aiming for and measuring performance
14. Hardware emulators
15. Building the toolkit
16. Appendices
17. References and further reading