RE: [LI] Ever tried DDD?

["Avinash S. Chinchalkar" <avinashc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Raj,
 
> <ASBESTOS> Actually I found printf to be one of the best debuggers
> going around.  You can download it with any version of the C library.
> </ASBESTOS> ;-)
 
Even i had same idea about debugging...and love for printfs :) (during my
college days)

BUT when I started working on a project...I was in real soup.
	
	I had to convert 60GB (dont belive!!! even i didnt ever imagined
that im going to do it) of data from one format to other...And the single
conversion had to run 7 days non stop.
But it used to fail with a core dump after 3 or 4 days ....

But by that time only 5 to 6 printfs in the code had created
HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE TOTALLY USELESS JUNK (more than 25 GB) of it.
And none of the UNIX commands came to my rescue in handling this junk except
the dbx and the 40MB core file :)

This changed my view about debugging and the project thought me a lot things
about debugging & BUGGING. Now I definately feel a good debugger comes handy
in many situations....

:)) But Still I use printfs very much than dbx....I apologise....

Avi.
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