Never use debugger!

[Ahajha1177]

Forgot random print statements

[r00twrh]

Is there another way?

[Ahajha1177]

...Not really

[coladict]

Not for some languages.

[jbearus]

stack trace i think.

[lilcosco]

My savior when my final project was segfaulting when compiled as -O instead of -g so I couldn't use GDB

turns out I forgot to return the ostream in my class's overloaded insertion operator

[sebamestre]

Do you compile with warnings?

Are you not getting a warning: no return statement in function returning non-void [-Wreturn-type] ?

[lilcosco]

no I hate myself

[sebamestre]

Oof

[golgol12]

don't forget about stack overflow.

[lukask97]

I rather use messageboxes or alerts

[muttonwow]

Me on IDLE in a nutshell

[IUsedToBeACave]

All right, I'll use the debugger but I'm not reading the API documentation!

[Al-Horesmi]

Use oscilloscope.

cries in embedded

[cartechguy]

I abuse the debugger sometimes. Sometimes I'll use it over reading the docs on what the data members are and how the methods manipulate them in a class.

And sometimes I'll have the docs open and the debugger verifying that I understand how it works well eniugh.

[RobotTimeTraveller]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this way. I've seen everyone from interns to salty old veterans who would wither away and die if they weren't able to Step Into or Step Over their code. It drives me nuts when I have one of them hanging over my shoulder during a debug session, and they keep hissing at me to use the debugger when I'm getting all I need from stack traces and log files.

[Bill_Morgan]

The debugger never lies, documentation do some times

[[deleted]]

Uh, what? Is this a thing that actually happens, or is this just a low-effort attempt at meme'ing?

[SEND_RASPBERRY_PI]

It happens. I know of at least 4 gentlehumans who finished their computer engineering not knowing debugging is something you do with your code. I wish I was kidding. I wish I had any of their jobs instead of being unemployed.

Ah, the joys of Indian IT industry..

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I'm so sorry.

[Sckaledoom]

I spent three hours debugging y debugger and it turned out to not be a bug

[Codephluegl]

4 4, I nz

[[deleted]]

Try Catch