Software Exorcism - A Handbook for Debugging and Optimizing Legacy Code by Blunden, by Bill -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Table of Contents BackCover Software Exorcism - A Handbook for Debugging and Optimizing Legacy Code Introduction

Audience Organization Typographical Conventions Prerequisites

Chapter 1: Preventative Medicine

1.1 Core Problems 1.2 Defensive Programming 1.3 Unit Testing 1.4 Tool Configuration 1.5 Machine Dependencies 1.6 Summary

Chapter 2: Debugging Tactics

2.1 Initial Steps 2.2 Resolving the Bug: Quick Fixes 2.3 Resolving the Bug: The Scientific Method 2.4 Record Keeping 2.5 Summary

Chapter 3: Understand the Problem

3.1 How Knowledge Is Lost 3.2 Poorly Written Code 3.3 Reverse Engineering 3.4 Summary

Chapter 4: Debugger Internals

4.2 Symbolic Debugger Extensions 4.3 Countertactics 4.4 Summary

Chapter 5: Optimization: Memory Footprint

5.1 Forgotten History 5.2 Program Layout in Memory 5.3 Code Segment 5.4 Data Segment 5.5 Stack Segment 5.6 Heap 5.7 Summary

Chapter 6: Optimization: CPU Cycles

6.1 Program Control Jumps 6.2 Program Control Branching 6.3 Program Control Loops 6.4 Memory Management 6.5 Input/Output 6.6 Exceptions 6.7 Expensive Operations 6.8 Quick Fixes 6.9 Summary 6.10 Putting It All Together

Chapter 7: Final Words of Advice

7.1 Other Threats to Source Code Integrity 7.2 Maintaining a Paper Trail 7.3 History Repeats Itself

Index

Index_A Index_B Index_C Index_D Index_E Index_F Index_G Index_H Index_I Index_J Index_K Index_L Index_M Index_N Index_O Index_P Index_Q Index_R Index_S Index_T Index_U Index_V Index_W Index_X Index_Y Index_Z

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