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The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse-New from No Starch Press
The Authoritative Guide to Debugging with Popular Open Source Tools

San Francisco, CA-Debugging, the demanding process of finding and fixing
programming errors, is fundamental to successful software development. But
even many experienced programmers find debugging a challenge.

"The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse" (No Starch Press,
September 2008, 280 pp, ISBN 9781593271749) teaches readers how to
effectively use the three most popular open source debugging tools: GDB,
DDD, and Eclipse. The text-command based GDB (the GNU Project Debugger) is
included with most Linux distributions. DDD is a popular GUI front end for
GDB, while Eclipse provides a complete integrated development environment.

"The Art of Debugging" offers readers specific advice for debugging with
each tool and explains general debugging strategies. Real world examples
of coding errors help to clarify the authors' guiding principles, and
readers will quickly understand why their programs crash or throw
exceptions.

The authors are well-known for their popular online debugging tutorials,
and a printed book is long overdue. According to No Starch Press publisher
Bill Pollock, "Programmers are desperate for a book devoted to debugging,
particularly with GDB and DDD. Finally, the wait is over. No more
debugging by hand."  

In the book, readers learn how to:  
- Inspect variables and data structures
- Understand segmentation faults and core dumps
- Use features like catchpoints, convenience variables, and artificial
arrays
- Avoid common debugging pitfalls
- Prevent errors in the first place by making the best usage of editors,
compilers, and static code checkers

The book also includes coverage of advanced topics like thread,
client-server, GUI, and parallel programming. Whether readers dread the
thought of debugging programs or simply want to improve their current
debugging efforts, they'll find a valuable ally in "The Art of Debugging
with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse." 

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Norman Matloff, a computer science professor at UC Davis, is the author of
several popular public-domain software packages and online tutorials.

Peter Jay Salzman received his doctorate in theoretical physics at UC
Davis and founded the Linux Users Group of Davis. He is currently a
programmer with a Wall Street financial firm.


ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Chapter 1, "Some Preliminaries for Beginners and Pros" (PDF):
	http://www.nostarch.com/download/debugging_samplechapter.pdf
Table of contents overview:  www.nostarch.com/debugging_toc.htm
Detailed table of contents (PDF): 
http://www.nostarch.com/download/debugging_detailedtoc.pdf
Large cover image:  http://www.nostarch.com/debugging_big.htm
Index (PDF):  http://www.nostarch.com/download/debugging_index.pdf

The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse
by Norman Matloff and Peter Jay Salzman
September 2008, 280 pp.
ISBN 9781593271749, $39.95 USD

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