A built-in debugger for the kernel is one missing feature that some enterprise vendors have added. Will the mainstream kernel be able to agree on an approach to this surprisingly contentious issue?

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Oracle has fully integrated the long-awaited Linux DTrace debugging tool into the latest release of its Linux distribution, potentially allowing administrators and developers to pinpoint the cause of ...

Lice is a Windows-based graphical debugger for developers customizing the Linux kernel and writing Linux device drivers for x86-based embedded projects. Unlike most debuggers for Linux, it doesn't use ...

I’m at the Intel Developer Conference today in San Francisco. Just before lunch, I sat in on a demo of Arium’s latest SourcePoint debugger and the company’s ECM-XDP3 JTAG emulator for Intel processors ...

A recent post about debugging constructs surprised me. There were quite a few comments about how you didn’t need a debugger, as long as you had printf. For that matter, we’ve all debugged systems ...