Why Making a Debugger is So Hard! (ft Ryan Fleury)

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📍 Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:10 Printf Debugging
00:10:20 RAD Debugger Origins
00:25:00 PDB (Program Database) Limit
00:27:27 RAD Linker
00:28:40 Working for Epic
00:32:13 What the hell is MUMPS
00:33:28 D Sucks
00:34:45 Oodle Adjacent
00:35:40 How do steps work?
00:42:50 INT 3 Instruction/Trap
00:46:20 Step count
00:47:50 Overwrite and replace
00:49:42 The desire for user level INT 3 handling
01:00:39 Alternative to User level INT 3
01:03:10 Chrome Debugger complaints
01:07:51 RAD Debug features
01:16:52 Compatible languages
01:18:41 Gabe Newell annoucement strategy
01:19:37 Outro 1
01:20:01 Cleverer than Stack pointers
01:22:55 Prime pees on stream
01:24:20 Faking addresses and the shadow stack
01:27:50 Data breakpoints
01:28:38 Prime shoots his shot
01:32:46 TLDR
01:34:28 Debugging in VM langs
01:35:00 PUBE G
01:36:28 Outro 2