[Info-vax] [OT] Program debugging, was: Re: HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Simon Clubley]

On 2012-08-24, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>
> I know of places and people who are known for their skills, including 
> people who even invented some of the programming languages used today, 
> as well as doing the compilers you use. And I still don't see any 
> programs that works right the first time.
>

My programs generally don't work the first time, but thinking through
the actual results instead of the expected results and looking at my
code does reveal the problem rather quickly in a surprising number of
cases, including in embedded code, without having to resort to a
debugger.

I do find a LED handy for debugging interrupt handlers sometimes however.

Simon.

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