>You don't have the phenomenon where you just miss the critical thing while in a debugger, and then you have to laboriously start over. If you miss the critical

>You don't have the phenomenon where you just miss the critical thing while in a debugger, and then you have to laboriously start over. If you miss the critical thing with logging, you turn on more of it and run it again. This is rather confusing to be honest. Are you saying restarting the software is hard, or that restarting it is easy? If you just missed the critical thing, just add a conditional breakpoint ("Stop here if ptr is null") and restart the software.