[Info-vax] VMS Cobol - GnuCOBOL

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-03-01 02:09, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> bill  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2/28/2023 6:39 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> gus baird always said "You don't need a debugger.  What you need is to stop
>>> putting bugs in your programs."
>>
>> Which is great if it is you putting the bugs in and not the compiler.
> 
> True.  But unfortunately if the compiler is putting the bugs in, the debugger
> is probably not of much use anyway.

Depends. I've found one case of a gcc bug where a debugger showed the 
problem just fine.

However, the statement can be applied recursively to the compiler as 
well. Stop putting bugs in the compiler.

   Johnny