The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with
judiciously placed print statements.

    -- Brian W. Kernighan, in the paper Unix for Beginners (1979)

On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 05:00:18PM -0600, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
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> 
> On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Russ Cox wrote:
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> > Print statements.
> 
> interesting, that's the answer in the supercomputing world too. 
> 
> Geez, why are we spending all this money on debuggers :-)
> 
> on the 65K CPU blue gene box, I've been told that "debugging with over 512 
> CPUs is ... printf". 
> 
> 
> > Your call to threadexitsall(0) at the end of
> > threadmain is wrong.  It should be threadexits().
> 
> Thanks. I did a stupid thing, changing the exits(0) from the plan 9 
> version to this threadexitsall(0)! oops.
> 
> ron

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