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by pjmlp 2712 days ago
Print debugging is only necessary when support for trace points in debuggers is lacking for the respective language.

With good support, a couple of trace points, even on a live running instance is all that is needed, without any extra recompiles.
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FartyMcFarter 2712 days ago
This is just not true. For example, some bugs are so rare that you can't hope to reproduce them by just looking at "a live running instance". In this case, print debugging can be the only practical way to go.
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pjmlp 2712 days ago
Which is exactly what trace points are for.

More devs should learn about JTags, IntelliTrace, DTrace, ....

No need for manually writing printf-debugging and recompiling all the time, when the debugger can do that for you.

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