James Bewley wrote: > Out of interest, how do you go about debugging without a debugger?
The Linus Torvalds way: by reading the code and observing its behaviour. Changing the inputs and adding print statements are good too. I've never felt the need to use Perl's debugger because it's so easy to slip in a few print statements here and there. I do use GDB with C code occasionally. But typically I find big programs can't be monitored in a debugger anyway, because they're doing so many things in parallel in a live system. What helps is good tracing and logging, but then you need to be able to interpret logs and deduce what's wrong from that. Same skills as debugging small programs without a debugger. -- Jamie _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
