Version 18 of debugging

Updated 2012-12-16 05:27:12 by pooryorick

Debugging is the process of moving from the identification of some departure from the expected or hoped for behavior towards, hopefully, the identification of the cause, or at least, a change in the process so that behavior is more acceptable.

Tools

gdb

Tkinspect

Tkcon

sports facilities such as idedebug and observe , which provide sophisticated breakpoint and tracing facilities, and hot errors, which displays the source of the proc in dig-down style

INSPECT app

valgrind

Electric Fence

Articles

   [Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules For Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems, David J. Agans]]

• How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary, Robert L. Read, 2002: PYK 2012-12: a quick glance-through indicates that this is worth the read. Others have received it positively as well.

See Also

RamDebugger

A minimal debugger

traceback

Dynamic Debugger

Favorite debugging techniques applicable to Tcl

what debugging tools are available to a Tcl programmer

Resources for learning to debug

How to debug memory faults in Tcl and extensions

Leak Hunt (C level)

Help! My Tcl application just crashed!

C compiled image processing on an interactive Bwise canvas

Effective ways to request help with Tcl-related problems

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