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Ask HN: Whats your favorite Debugging tricks?

2 points·quelsolaar··3 comments

It doesn't seem to be a topic covered very much in Computer Science, and isn't a topic regularly discussed among programmers despite the amount of time most people spend doing it.

What are your favorite debugging tricks?

Learn to use a real debugger, not just print() statements

Breakpoints, value peeking, step into, step over are incredibly value especially on larger blocks of code

Fix the first bug first. The second bug might be fixed by the first.

dtrace/strace

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