I mean, these are orthogonal, not mutually exclusive. You need to use whatever combination of tools makes sense for your tasks. Sometimes it's a debugger, somet

I mean, these are orthogonal, not mutually exclusive. You need to use whatever combination of tools makes sense for your tasks. Sometimes it's a debugger, sometimes it's printf, sometimes it's a hard reboot, sometimes it's an infinite loop, etc... and sometimes there just isn't any great solution. Nobody was suggesting you have to use a debugger everywhere or that a debugger is the solution to every problem. Just like none of the solutions you mentioned is. I'm just saying if you are using a debugger/IDE (which I can assure people use quite seriously, even if you don't come across such situations personally), then you might want to watch out for the repercussions.