Chapter 14. adb Macros: Writing Your Own

At this point, you’ve learned about header files, the only bit of the source provided to most UNIX users, and symbol tables. You’ve gained an understanding of how these two can be used together to learn more about the UNIX kernel. You’ve also learned a lot about the absolute debugger, adb, and we’ve looked at a few adb macros.

We now certify you as:

adb Macros: Writing Your Own

In this chapter, we’ll present you with macro programming tasks that will exercise your new knowledge. We will end the chapter with sample solutions. Let’s get started!

Exercise 1: Initial information

As you become accustomed to working with system crash dumps and ...

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