From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: gdb problem or just silly me - please help
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 09:56:47 +0200
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Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 11:25:19 +0200 (IST), Eli Zaretskii
> <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> 
> >There's nothing wrong with printf debugging
> 
> Unless the printf() family function itself crashes the program.  This
> happens to me all the time when porting Allegro programs from DJGPP to
> Windows, as DirectX is somewhat finicky about when the screen can be
> drawn on.

This simply means that you need to use another function, not the literal
printf, but the principles remain the same.  For example, when debugging code
that cannot stand a DOS call, I use cprintf or cputs instead of printf.