On Monday,  9 September 2002 at 20:14:34 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> There will always be situations where the debugger can't catch the
>> problem in time.  Then it's up to you to guess and put a breakpoint
>> just before it freezes; this can be an interative process.  The method
>> requiring the least thought is to single step over function calls
>> until the system freezes.  Then you know which function it happened
>> in.  Reboot, set a breakpoint in that function, and repeat.
>
> Dumping a bunch of printf's in, with "Here 1\n", "Here 2\n", and so
> on will find this problem a lot faster than an equivalent number of
> reboots.  8-).

That depends on how well you use each tool.  

Greg
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