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98Windows
This is great, I've always loathed writing lots of messy printf statements to debug my code.

Can it do multi-dimensional arrays?

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Lamza
i love this meme xD
mutednarayan
If you really want to do any sort of heavy debugging in C you should really do yourself a favor and learn to use gdb. You'll be able to debug your code while still keeping the source intact and also get more tools.
falcolas
This in no way prevents you from using GDB, and could indeed complement it. You can't always depend on having GDB available (i.e. production hosts where the sysadmins have (rightfully) restricted the use of compilation and debugging tools).
ufo
Or `ddd` if you prefer something with a GUI (it makes watching variables and memory locations muich easier, IMO)
q3k
So this is just glorified tombstone debugging..? Why not use a proper debugger, like gdb?
falcolas
Personally, because not all issues occur on a machine I can set up and run GDB in. Having this kind of data in logs is incredibly useful for those kinds of situations.
prohor
OK, this is logging on debug level, but when level is decided during compilation. Why don't using logging on debug then? You can also diagnose production code, while log level check is not very expensive.