Tag: debugging

How to debug long running programs

Post author By satabdidas
Post date October 11, 2018

I recently chased down a crash in a software running on a large test case. The fix surprisingly is a one-liner in an area of code which has been touched only four times in last 8 years. It was a fairly complex piece of code and a completely unfamiliar territory for me. There was no […]

Tags C, debugging, programing

General

The elusive memory error

Post author By satabdidas
Post date January 4, 2014

It involved a crash with 32 bit optimized build of an executable which was running fine with 32 bit or 64 bit debug build and even with 64 bit optimized build. No crash with debug build, hence no debug symbols! I started printing out logs “inside this function : All looking good”. This exercise led […]

Tags C, crash, debugging, memory error, programming