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Date: | Mon, 31 Oct 94 16:49:19 EST |
From: | peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock) |
To: | djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu |
Subject: | Re: NULL pointers in (ANSI) string functions [was: strcat() ?] |
Reply-To: | babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu |
> I think a stack trace (or gdb exception) is the best kind of debugging > - "It broke - HERE" I agree that a stack trace does tell you exactly where it broke, but if the trace were accompanied by a message "NULL pointer passed to xxxxxx", you would know the cause a little quicker. Whether this small advantage is worth the trouble of creating and maintaining a debugging library is questionable.
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