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[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

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 ()