Chapter 4
Traveling About the Stack
IN THIS CHAPTER
Moving about the stack
How local variables are stored
Viewing threads and memory
Tracing through assembly code
Debuggers can be powerful things. They can leap tall computer applications in a single bound and see through them to find all their flaws. The more you know about debuggers, the more you can put them to use. In this chapter, you see how to move about the stack, which provides you with a record of calls within your application, among other useful information.
This chapter also helps you view data in various ways. For example, in the previous chapter you got a quick view of local variables in the “Watching the variables” section. This chapter enhances your understanding of local variables. In addition, you see how threads and memory work, which offers another perspective of data and how code interacts with it. Finally, you get down to the nuts and bolts with assembly language, which is sort of the way that the computer sees your application, except with a human-readable twist.
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