Technical Q&A

PLAT 17 - Software Debugging - Sources of Information (15-Feb-96)

• How to Write Macintosh Software, by Scott Knaster (Addison-Wesley). This book describes how to find all the bugs you wrote when you used memory manipulation in C.

• Debugging Macintosh Software with MacsBug, by Othmer & Straus (Addison-Wesley). This book is a tutorial for MacsBug, although it doesn't describe the latest version. Check the MacsBug 6.5.2 Release Notes for additional details.

• MacsBug Reference and Debugging Guide, Apple Computer (Addison-Wesley). Again, the book doesn't describe the latest version of MacsBug, so check the MacsBug 6.5.2 Release Notes for additional details.

• "Macintosh Debugging: A Weird Journey Into the Belly of the Beast" by Bo3B Johnson and Fred Huxham, develop Issue 8

• "Macintosh Debugging: The Belly of the Beast Revisited" by Fred Huxham and Greg Marriott, develop Issue 13

• "Debugging on PowerPC," by Dave Falkenburg & Brian Topping, develop Issue 17

• "Balance of Power: MacsBug for PowerPC," by Dave Evans & Jim Murphy, develop Issue 22

• The continuing "Kon and Bal" puzzle pages in develop magazine.