Category Archives: Debugging

lpr YouStupidPrinterTakeThis.txt

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Grant

The other day I had the joy and the privilege to debug some printing code. Oh yeah, it was as much as fun as you might be thinking. To make it even better the bug was showing up only on … Continue reading →

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Virtual virtual debugging or “How I got an ID10T error from Parallels”

Posted on September 28, 2006 by Grant

Yesterday I was minding my own business when a bug slipped into my queue. We’ll call him, oh I don’t know, Defect #327. (I’ll give you one guess where I got that name from.) It goes something like this: Defect … Continue reading →

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And who says Apple is always the one that has style?

Posted on August 23, 2006 by Grant

So I was debugging some code a while back on Linux using gdb from the command line. Oh yeah, old school. Anyhow, during one of my runs I accidentally attached gdb to its own process. It went something kinda like … Continue reading →

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