databases, optimization and open source

Sean picasso@madflower.com
Sat, 17 Mar 2001 16:37:35 -0500 (EST)


On 22 Mar 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu> writes:
> 
> > I'd love to fix some bugs in Mozilla, but there's not a
> > snowball's chance in hell I'll ever find what I'm looking for,
> > let alone understand the source enough to fix it... ;)
> 
> Depends on the bug.  Some kinds of mistakes are easy to find even
> in a very large program.  If it's reproducible then you can
> probably do it armed only with some printf() statements and maybe
> a debugger.

I thought the printf() was the only real debugger =)