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When debugging a c++ application, I used to refer to source code to find out the actual definition of a macro. If the macro is not a simple ...

People often use gdb to debug user mode applications, which is a convenient debugging means. It's also possible to use gdb to debug linu...

Continue the post view call stack of crashed application on android . The agdb tool is able to convert PC register to source file informat...

While debugging os or application crash bug on windows ce (the tool winaddr2line isn't particularly used for windows CE application, i...

On android, when a process crashes in native code, the call stack of the process will be saved to a log file in /data/tombstomes/, and writt...

To help me memorize commonly used programming and debugging tools on windows and linux, I created a wiki page here: http://code.google.com/...

I was debugging memory leak bugs recently. The bug was caused by incorrect usage of the osip library. It's not uncommon that we meet pro...

Profiling is an effective way of finding out bottlenecks in an application. On windows ce platform, profiling can also be done easily. To...

ipython doesn't work with built-in pdb debugger. While I tried to debug a python script with " run -d script.py " within ipyt...

As I posted before , logging is an important debugging means. In order to be truly useful and convenient, the logging module should at lease...

I debugged a .net 1.1 based windows application which exits silently upon start up. The problem itself is trivial and not worth mentioning....

Sometimes, it's helpful to trace system api calls during debugging so that we can determine if the incorrect behavior is caused by passi...

After we release a product to market, it's not uncommon that our customer report bugs to us, even we gained a lot of confidence from ...

In visual studio, we can add trace point while debugging. It's a helpful feature to analyze the behavior of a program without breaking ...

Symptom: Recently, we are experiencing process hang with the goAhead web server. The symptom can be reproduced if we disconnect the network ...

Stack corruption bug is sometimes difficult to fix if we can't find out the steps to reproduce it. The cause of the bug may not be so ob...