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Engineering. Software. Software Engineering.

Personal blog · jefftrull.github.ioprogramminghardware

Engineering. Software. Software Engineering. is a personal blog at jefftrull.github.io about programming and hardware. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Skipping library code in GDB with help from libClang”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2015–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a post on C++ debugging with gdb and libclang, shown in a 2018 thread on stepping through C++ code in Visual Studio. The only comment is a bare link.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Some thoughts on EDA, C++, and electronics.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Skipping library code in GDB with help from libClang
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-07-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. Using libClang and gdb: http://jefftrull.github.io/c++/gdb/python/libclang/llvm/2018...

    Comment linking /c++/gdb/python/libclang/llvm/2018/04/30/stepping-with-libclang.html

    on “C++ Just My Code Stepping in Visual Studio”
  2. Submitted A gentle introduction to fuzzing C++ code with AFL and libFuzzer as a story · 28 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Skipping library code in GDB with help from libClang as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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