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What are the RISC-V External Debug Support Version 0.13.2 specifications? Advantages of a using high-level-language debugger. The role of the ubiquitous breakpoints in debugging. How trace is ...

When you run JavaScript on the web and encounter a bug, you often use the browser's built-in developer tools to debug it. Alan Norbauer, who is involved in front-end development at Netflix, has ...

Visual Studio provides a rich set of tools for finding bugs, though most developers aren't aware or don't take advantage of all of them. Bugs occur at two stages in a code's life: during development ...

Tools for debugging embedded systems range from software monitors and simulators, which are independent of the hardware under development, to custom silicon for in-circuit emulation, which replaces ...

Since JavaScript is designed to expose the code itself to the user, it is obfuscated for reverse engineering measures or equipped with an anti-debugger. A simple and effective countermeasure against ...

If you are used to coding with almost any modern tool except the Arduino IDE, you are probably accustomed to having on-chip debugging. Sometimes having that visibility inside the code makes all the ...

Many reasons exist why Linux is a good operating system for embedded applications. Besides being open source and cost effective, one of the most important reasons is portability; a Linux application ...

If you have ever tried to debug optimized code, you probably realized that it can be a frustrating experience. Without optimizations, your debugger is a reliable assistant, precisely following every ...