CSE271: Short Quiz #6 -- Debugging, Profiling, and Scripting

  1. List two (of the many) capabilities that we would desire a dynamic memory management debugging package to have? (4 points)

  2. What is special about the very first line of most shell scripts? (2 points)

  3. Name one static code checking package. (2 points)

  4. Give one good characteristic of system call tracers that traditional debuggers like gdb do not have? (2 points)

Last revised: 1 March 2007, Brian D. Davison.