The whole of my book on Building a Debugger is now available on Early Access! . It teaches you how to write a native code debugger from scratch. There's lots of cats.

RT @TartanLlama: I'm over on the blue coloured site with the same username.

I'm over on the blue coloured site with the same username.

I see this both in GitHub and when using git on the command line.

Here's the commit history from September 15th to 17th, 2021. Zero commits.

Here's the commit history from September 14th to 17th, 2021. Bunch of commits from that range.

Specifically, commits from September 15th 2021 to August 17th 2022 don't show up, *unless* you include a date from before or after that range.

Found something *very* strange about LLVM's git history that I can't make sense of. Months of the commit history seem totally blank *unless* you include dates from outside of the blank range, in which case all the commits magically appear.

RT @og_fhools: Building a Debugger by @TartanLlama is a great book. The code is clean, one of the first books I've seen to actually go over….

Sorry to whoever at Scaleway has to deal with my unhinged support tickets

Massive shout out to @corsix, who somehow did a full in-depth tech review in record time and saved the publication schedule.

Some things in the book I think are cool:.- Walks you through implementing limited expression evaluation, so you can call functions inside the running process.- Teaches you to write a DWARF parser.- Builds a full stack unwinder based on DWARF unwind tables.- Traces shlib loading.

RT @tysonbenson: Beyond excited to jump into @TartanLlama's "Building a Debugger" - just picked up the Early Access version this evening an….

RT @ludwigABAP:

If you've already worked through the chapters of the first Early Access version, I've written a handy upgrade guide that shows you all the code changes you need to make to get up-to-date:

RT @nostarch: Pre-order Building a Debugger and get early access to a hands-on guide that’ll have you creating your own debugger in no time….

If you're in the US, my Building a Debugger book is part of Barnes and Noble's 25% off preorder sale:

RT @travisgoodspeed: Hot damn is this a cool book! Sy covers implementing a modern debugger in clean C++, starting from the very first att….

Preorders of the book are still 25% off

The GitHub repository for "Building a Debugger" now has all the code for the early access chapters, including some fixes that'll be in the next update:.