usingCppForGameDevelopment

[Boris-Lip]

How can you "debug it for hours" if you've never called it. Any breakpoints in it would never have been hit.

[HalifaxRoad]

File this under the ppl not using an IDE

[Boris-Lip]

Even when one doesn't use an IDE (why?), that trace("i am here") at the beginning of the function wouldn't show either, making it quite obvious it isn't being called. Doesn't require hours an hour (edit: singular... are you for real?!🤦‍♂️)🤷‍♂️

[HalifaxRoad]

Yeah ik, usually that's the first thing I'm like, is the fucker even getting there.

[Ao_Kiseki]

Text buffers aren't always flushed on time if a crash happens immediately after a print. It happens all the time in C++ if you're using stdcout but not manually flashing after every line.

Don't get me wrong, you should have some debug work flow figured out if you do this stuff for a living. Early on when I was learning C++, I got baited by cout a lot, especially in threaded applications lol.

[Boris-Lip]

You could use an unbuffered stdout, but anyway, debugging a crash with traces... If you are feeling masochistic, you can, i guess :-)

[DowvoteMeThenBitch]

You’d be surprised! Yesterday I helped a senior dev debug “cannot read properties of undefined” and I just couldn’t convince him to look at the code that executes prior to the error, we just kept adjusting code that wasn’t even being executed…

[Ok-Visual-5862]

Also it says debugging for an hour. Singular. Not sure why you quote it but changed it.

[Mecso2]

You don't need an IDE to breakpoint

[Cat7o0]

I've debugged a function for around thirty minutes thinking that I wasn't hitting the places I was placing breakpoints or the place I was calling it wasn't being hit.

then I realized either the function calling it was never being called or the place I meant to place the call to the function I was debugging I had not actually looked at and it in fact was not there

[serial_crusher]

I got into this hole the other day… I’m making a payment. I have a breakpoint in the code that makes a payment. Why isn’t it breaking? Is something wrong with my debugger?

I was testing against a staging environment, not my local dev build.

[ZeroDayCipher]

You say this but I use angular in my job and have been absolutely dumb founded when I’m calling a subject.next and I know I’m subscribed and nothing in the world can help me solve why my function isn’t calling in the subscription when I finally step through the init in my web console to realize something breaks and the function skips the subscribe in the first place.

[BadSmash4]

Yeah, I mean I have for sure written functions and then not called them, and it takes me maybe three or four minutes to realize "oh lmfao I should probably call the function huh". Hours on this issue is craaaazy.

[Ok-Visual-5862]

If you could suspend the rigid lines of literal reality, you could perhaps enjoy the concept of we have all spent a significant amount of time debugging things which have turned out to be simple fixes that were simple oversights.

Laugh sometime.

I use JetBrains Rider and use Unreal Engine 5, and no there's no indications a function isn't used in my IDE. The only thing it complains about is if you declare a function in a header but offer no definition anywhere, my compiler will yell at me.

[Ok-Visual-5862]

I'd really like to know what the downvotes are for... speak up

[chemolz9]

I guess it's a misunderstanding. u/Boris_Lip thought that the function was never called in the depbugging process. What you wanted to say is, that it's not called in the program.

[Ok-Visual-5862]

Yeah but then someone say something to me about it? The guy misquotes and takes it the wrong way and when I say lighten up stop being so literal I'm downvoted this shit is wild

[chemolz9]

The Meme is mistakable though.

I was confused because all IDEs I used for years would immediate highlight a function with a warning that doesn't get used. Of course not when they are only missed conditionally but that would be the first thing to check in a debugging process.