More GDB wizardry and 8 other essential Linux application debugging tools - Greg Law [ACCU 2019]
A practical talk with few slides, and lots of live demos of debugging tools and techniques that will make you a much more effective programmer.
As Kernighan says: everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. Debugging dominates software development, and is as important as it is overlooked. All too often we rely on printf or at best some basic gdb with not much more than 'breakpoint', 'continue', 'next' and 'print'.
This talk will demonstrate some of the power of newer versions of GDB (Reverse debug, dynamic printf, amazing scriptability with Python), as well as some of the other Linux debugging tools at your disposal: ftrace, strace, ltrace, valgrind, rr, asan, perf, and others.
The presentation works either as a stand-alone talk or as a follow on to Greg’s popular 'GDB Power User' talk at ACCU 2017.
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Greg is the co-founder and CTO of Undo. He has over 20 years’ experience in the software industry and has held development and management roles at companies including the pioneering British computer firm Acorn, as well as fast-growing start ups, NexWave and Solarflare. It was at Acorn that Greg met Julian and on evenings and weekends, they invented the core technology that would eventually become UndoDB. Greg left Solarflare in 2012 to perform a dual CEO/CTO role during the start-up years. Greg has overseen the company as it transitioned from his garden shed to a scalable award-winning business.
Greg lives in Cambridge, UK with his wife Alison and children Abi and Sam. In his spare time, Greg catches up on email.
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Future Conferences:
ACCU 2019 Autumn Conference, Belfast (UK):
2019-11-11 and 2019-11-12.
ACCU 2020 Spring Conference, Bristol (UK), Marriott City Centre:
2020-03-24 to 2020-03-28.
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