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> Well, stdout isn't a debug channel; you might want to debug a program that actually uses stdout for its output, not for debug chatter. What's your use case f

• kazinator 9y ago
  stderr also isn't for debug output. If, say, a compiler puts out "hello.c: syntax error" on its standard error stream, that is not a debugging diagnostic regarding that compiler's internals; it's about "hello.c". stderr is not an instrumentation tool which goes away when we're not debugging the program.
  • monocasa 9y ago
    Why? It's not like it'd be printing debugging level messages on release builds in either case.