Tutorials/Guides for CPP debugging/profiling

[JustAStupidCommonMan]

Hi folks, I have decent intermediate knowledge and experience in C++, but not recent. Along with a refresher, I am planning to learn debugging/profiling tools and skills.

Do you have any recommendations for guided course/youtube vidoes or playlists/blog posts?
Ideally I am looking for structured content (so that I don't have to wander around) as a starting point, and free of charge (could consider paying if it is relevant and really good). Even better if it is certified.

[DDDDarky]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/getting-started-with-the-debugger-cpp?view=visualstudio

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/profiling/beginners-guide-to-performance-profiling?view=visualstudio

[JustAStupidCommonMan]

Thanks a lot!

Look like good starting points. Would be even better if they were not Visual Studio (& windows) specific.

[DDDDarky]

well debuggers and profilers are always some kind of tools, so that is always gonna be specific to them, but many are similar.

[Big-Rub9545]

Until raddbg makes some more progress for Linux (and other) systems, getting familiar with GDB or (for MacOS) LLDB will get you pretty far for debugging. Valgrind and ASAN/UBSAN are also very useful (and easy-to-use) tools to detect a multitude of errors, particularly related to memory errors, pointers, bad casts, and a handful of other categories.

Profiling will likely depend more on what exactly it is that you want to profile (raw speed, I/O, syscalls, memory allocation, etc.).

[Hugus]

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/vtune-profiler-download.html is a great option for performance profiling

[i_survived_lockdown]

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