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How Debuggers Work
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Have you ever set a breakpoint and wondered "how does this work?" Sy will demystify the internal workings of debuggers, showing you what's under the hood of tools you use every day. You'll learn how debuggers step through code, inspect memory, call functions in the running program and more, giving you a deeper mastery of your debugger and an understanding of fundamental operating systems technologies.
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Have you ever set a breakpoint and wondered "how does this work?"
Sy will demystify the internal workings of debuggers, showing you what's under the hood of tools you use every day.
You'll learn how debuggers step through code, inspect memory, call functions in the running program and more, giving you a deeper mastery of your debugger and an understanding of fundamental operating systems technologies.
About the speakers
Author of "Building a Debugger" & WebAssembly Developer at Fastly