Debugging

BWToolKit

In Debugging, Ergonomics on 13 November 2008 with no comments

Brandon Walkin’s BWToolKit look amazing!

New Malloc Finds 33 Year Old Yacc Bug

In Debugging on 9 July 2008 with no comments

Ottoo Moerbeek has created a new malloc implementation which caused a bug that has been lurking in yacc for 33 years to come to light:
“My new malloc has some features not found in the current malloc: it moves allocations smaller than a page but bigger than half a page to the end of the page, [...]

Sampling an App In Activity Monitor

In Debugging on 2 March 2008 with no comments

Frasier Speirs in his review of ScreenFlow, creates a great video demonstrating how to use Activity Monitor to grab the current stacks in a running app so that you might send it to the developer to help him debug a stall or other bug.