Debugger (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linu)

2000-09-11 Thread almesber
Kai Henningsen wrote: > A classical memory corruption bug, and like most late-effect bugs hell to > find without some sort of support for poking around in the actual program > state. Agreed. My usual debugging procedure is as follows: 1. try to reproduce the problem 2. make an educated gue

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linu

2000-09-09 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ingo Molnar) wrote on 05.09.00 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > I don't really believe that. It is as easy to add a silly NULL pointer > > check based on a oops as it is after a debugging session (and it is > > even likely you chose the si

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linu

2000-09-09 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David S. Miller) wrote on 05.09.00 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't want this > to start happening, and automated debugging/profiling tools tend to > encourage people to operate in such a way. Somehow I suddenly get the impression we're talking past each others. Since w