• nogooduser@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I used to work on an old DOS product and we didn’t have a debugger so we used to have a DEBUG command line argument with

    if (DEBUG) printf(“debugging”);
    

    to try to see what was happening and the number of times that code alone fixed the problem was scary.

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      I mean . . . I still do this on my own stuff. If I’m interested in optimizing for speed I’ll do it as #ifdef instead of if ()