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From: mem@zinn.MV.COM (Mark E. Mallett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: core dumps
Message-ID: <308@zinn.MV.COM>
Date: 3 May 88 05:36:31 GMT
References: <4782@ozdaltx.UUCP> <188@ists> <1293@rpp386.UUCP>
Organization: Zinn Computer Co., Litchfield NH
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In article <1293@rpp386.UUCP>, jfh@rpp386.UUCP (John F. Haugh II) writes:
> FLAME ON!
> 
> have we all forgotten how to debug a program???
> 
> first, start by determining WHERE this is happening.  to do that you
> need to compile with -g turned on.
>
>    <etc>

This is an idiotic flame.  Very few people are interested in debugging
every program that goes wrong on their system, *especially* all of the
system programs that you use every day.  The reasonable thing when finding
a problem is to ask for a solution, and not to try to hunt for the answer
in parallel with the other 10,000 people who also use the program!  No,
we have not all forgotten how to debug, but we are more interested in
debugging things that are more closely related to our *own* lives.
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