Debug It!

Put It in Action

• Use assertions to do the following:

  • Both document and automatically validate your assumptions

  • Ensure that your software, although robust in production, is fragile during debugging

• Create a debug build that

  • Is compiled with debug-friendly compiler options

  • Allows key subsystems to be replaced by debugging equivalents

  • Builds in control that will prove useful during diagnosis

• Detect systemic problems, such as resource leaks and exception handling issues, preemptively.

Footnotes

[35]	If assertions are enabled, which we’ll get to soon.
[36]	See the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 [FGMF99] specification for further details.
[37]	Of course, you wouldn’t write this code yourself given ...