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Intel's new Ivy Bridge CPUs support a security feature called Supervisor Mode Execution Protection (SMEP). It's supposed to thwart...

How do you protect a C program against memory corruption exploits? We should try to write code with no bugs, but we also need protection aga...

Have you ever wanted to embed GDB breakpoints in C source code? int main() { printf( "Hello, \n " ); EMBED_BREAKPOINT; ...

Printing a program's state as it runs is the simple but effective debugging tool of programmers everywhere. For efficiency, we usually d...

I spoke before of using global locks in Haskell to protect a thread-unsafe C library. And I wrote about a GHC bug which breaks the most st...

This article is about a GHC bug I encountered recently, but it's really an excuse to talk about some GHC internals at an intro level. (...

Debugger features such as breakpoints go well beyond the normal ways in which programs interact. How can one process force another process ...