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What would be the situation in which you can't run debugger? Is this when the issue can't be reproduced in dev environment?
by blobfish 13y ago
What would be the situation in which you can't run debugger? Is this when the issue can't be reproduced in dev environment?
- AnimalMuppet 13y agoYou can't run a debugger when you don't have room on the embedded device for the debugger. You can't run one if you don't have communication with the device (if you're installing code by physically inserting ROM chips in sockets, and don't have a serial port or ethernet connection to it. And you can only run a debugger with great difficulty if your system is handling real time events, and if the debugger hits a breakpoint, you mess up the timing so that the behavior from that point on is completely changed. You might be able to get the information that the breakpoint triggered, and what the variables are at that point in time, but you can't continue from there and see how execution proceeds.