Debug?

[Justin26k]

I probably sound like the dumbest programmer there is but here I go I've made just a few small very small programs that do simple jobs well one of them seems to crash sometimes so I went to debug and I see a mess of things like this

push ebp[+10]
cmp 54654554
jmp 45646546

ect...

what is this stuff and where can I learn to understand it so I can debug Please Help?

[DrZaius]

Hi Justin26k,

That is Assembly code, the most basic programming language that the computer and processor can understand. When you compile your C++ program, the compiler translates the C++ into Assembly, and what you see it those instructions. What program or IDE are you using to compile/debug?

[Justin26k]

Visual C++ 6.0 im still choosing between VC++ and Delphi but right now VC++ 6.0

[DrZaius]

I last used VC6 a few month ago, so I'm not sure if that's the only debug method. Hopefully someone with more experience with VC can help and post.

[Justin26k]

What about a machine debugger will that work? I seen windebug is free from microsoft also heard of something called softice but I think its expensive theres also ollydbg it's free but how do you debug also some links on Assembly language would be nice

[DrZaius]

Here are two good Assembly sites.

http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/Page_asm/A..._ArtofAsm.html
http://www.penguin.cz/~literakl/intel/intel.html

Assmebly is a bit difficult to figure out though, and it's very different from C++ or any other high level language.

[Justin26k]

*gulp*