Practical Foundations of Debugging
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006HTML version of selected lecture materials from my forthcoming book is available on my personal web site:
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/index.php/foundations-of-debugging-x86/
Topics available online include:
- Memory, registers and simple arithmetic
- Number representations and pointers
- Bytes, words, double words and pointers to memory
- Instruction pointer and disassembling a program with pointers
- Memory and stacks
- Frame pointer and local variables
- Function parameters
- Function pointer parameters
- Virtual memory, processes and threads
- Arrays and structures in memory
In addition to x86 (32-bit) the book covers assembler, C/C++ and crash dump analysis on the following platforms:
- x64 Windows
- Windows Mobile (ARM processors)
It will include an educational version of x86/x64/ARM4 assembler and interpreter written using modern C++ and STL (including UML diagrams of all classes and components) and much more! Although all this bonus stuff is still under development it is actually working, compiling, loading and executing/interpreting small assembly language programs.
I’m also planning to publish an Internet version of this assembly language interpreter to run small educational assembly language programs anytime, anywhere. The latter Citrix-like goal is actually the part of my Masters degree project.
- Dmitry Vostokov -