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My debugging experience today: Quantum Debugging (fedia.io)

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Heisenbug. Nasty buggers, especially in my domain: Embedded Engineering. When you are in the debugger, the whole processor is stopped, missing tons of data coming in, missing interrupts, getting network timeouts, etc. More often than not, resuming makes no sense, and you have to get straight to reboot.

[–] fiqusonnick@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"You don't debug embedded" ~my brother, who's been working in embedded for almost 15 years

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's why I work with an extraordinary diligence to avoid making errors from the very start. Debugging is only a measure of last resort.