Chapter 12. The Modular Debugger
Contributions from Mike Shapiro
This chapter introduces the Modular Debugger, MDB. The subsequent chapters serve as a guide to learn basic MDB capabilities.
Introduction to the Modular Debugger
If you were a detective investigating the scene of a crime, you might interview witnesses and ask them to describe what happened and who they saw. However, if there were no witnesses or these descriptions proved insufficient, you might consider collecting fingerprints and forensic evidence that could be examined for DNA to help solve the case. Often, software program failures divide into analogous categories: problems that can be solved with source-level debugging tools; and problems that require low-level debugging facilities, ...
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