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From: Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How to implement diagnostic messages?
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:00:46 +1200
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On 09/12/11 09:56 AM, BGB wrote:
> On 9/11/2011 1:47 PM, Ian Collins wrote:
>> On 09/12/11 06:48 AM, BGB wrote:
>>>
>>> more fun is trying to track down where some code, somewhere, writes to a
>>> bad address, causing problems in potentially an entirely different part
>>> of the program.
>>
>> That's why we have tools like valgrind and dbx...
>>
>
> possibly, except Valgrind doesn't work on Windows AFAIK.

<snip lots of messy stuff I've never had to do>

I prefer to develop on a platform that gives me the tools I need :)

-- 
Ian Collins