UNIXy Goodness

There’s a dbx feature called “lazy stabs” that is clever, but a little confusing sometimes. I figured I’d talk about it a little to give an overview of what’s happening. There are really two parts to the idea of “lazy stabs”, one part is something we do all the time (demand loading most information [...]

So your program has Obj * p; in it, and you stop in dbx and say print *p Dbx comes back and says the memory is illegal or unmapped. But then you continue your program, and your program reads from *p just fine. What’s going on?

This gotcha showed up again on a [...]