How debugger works - Alex on Linux

Posted on March 24, 2008, 11:39 am, by Alexander Sandler, under Programming Articles. IntroductionBACK TO TOC In this article, I’d like to tell you how real debugger works. What happens under the hood and why it happens. We’ll even write our own small debugger and see it in action. I will talk about Linux, although same principles apply to other operating systems. Also, we’ll talk about x86 archit