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Let the debugger do its job. (suppo.fi)

submitted 1 year ago by Albin7326@suppo.fi to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] HairHeel@programming.dev 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Value watching is just printf; change my mind

[–] leo85811nardo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Ackchyually, value watching in debugger almost guarantee to get the value by address, but printf in some languages can pass by value, unnecessarily make copy of the watched variable, and the value printed is the copied data instead of the original