I have been troubleshooting this script for weeks and finally found it was trying to divide by zero.

  • HiddenLayer5
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    1 year ago

    Just ship it with debug flags so your program always generates a stack trace to the user!

  • raubarno
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    1 year ago

    Panicking on the error is much better than letting the system work continue on an undefined behaviour (good luck with debugging if you are ignoring all assertions)!

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    1 year ago

    Makes me think of devs who debug with print statements instead of a debugger and breakpoints.

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      IMO there’s a place for both. A print statement will reveal a flaw in the programmer’s thinking regarding the control flow of the program and the state at that time. If a print statement gives something unexpected, you know exactly where to look in the debugger. If it gives you what you expected, it reveals the problem may be elsewhere

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      Well, Kernighan himself said “The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.”

      If it was good enough for him…

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      1 year ago

      /me glances sideways at codebase

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      Worked on a project last year with one dev who was always super slow when having to debug even the simplest things. Turns out they didn’t know debuggers; just print statements… That person had more then 5 years of exp and was sold as a senior dev. But apparently nobody ever really coached them after uni and they never picked it up themselves :|

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    1 year ago

    would it help if I returned -2147483648?