Chapter 6. Debugging
There is no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated." | ||
| --Scott Lynch | ||
When I first started programming, I used print statements. Having to write this book, I took a look at some of my earliest code samples, and it turns out that most of it was commented out print statements used for checking the value of variables. Note that I started off writing C using Notepad, and compiling all that through the command line, so no green run button and no IDE. I knew about GDB, but it was so hard to even set a simple breakpoint that I stuck to my print statements. Most of the bugs I had encountered so far had been obvious bugs staring at me in the face. After a few mishaps, I started to print everything that I could ...
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