• Lunya \ she/it
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    612 years ago

    Meanwhile Rust: you might get an error at line 45 word 3 because it assumes variable foo is an int32 but it could be (whatever else idk), let’s not compile this before you correct this by changing line 43 in this specific way. Here’s the before and after code snippets so you can just copy-paste the fix.

    • TxzK
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      362 years ago

      Man I fucking love the Rust compiler. Easily the most understandable and useful error messages I’ve ever seen.

        • asudox
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          32 years ago

          I like how Elm error messages are like the compiler talking to you as a person.

    • @anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      182 years ago

      In my IDE there us even a button for accepting the compilers recommend fix. This is only possible because the error messages and recommendations are that good.

  • @smeg@feddit.uk
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    402 years ago

    JavaScript: error: undefined is undefined or some nonsense like that. Sorry to repeat the old JavaScript bad, but I really hate debugging JavaScript!

  • @DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works
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    162 years ago

    It’s been a minute since I used C/Cpp but if you compile with debugging symbols and using gdb give you info like in Java? At least the location of the crash.

    • @Miaou@jlai.lu
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      132 years ago

      And then you realise the program doesn’t crash when compiling with debug symbols 😢

    • Ziglin (it/they)
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      22 years ago

      And much more, it tells you each operation it goes through, where it is in the code, what’s in the registers and more.

  • Illecors
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    152 years ago

    But it returned 139! That’s a start even without a debugger!

  • @SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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    102 years ago

    And C/C++ are like that by design. Compiled languages were new and the developers were afraid additional checks would decrease performance. It was certainly performant in racing toward a crash.

    • mox
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      And C/C++ are like that by design. Compiled languages were new and the developers were afraid additional checks would decrease performance.

      If you have a credible citation showing that was what guided K&R’s decisions, I think you should post it.

  • Gnome Kat
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    but with a core dump you can just load it up and see the state of the process when it crashed…

  • @anarchyrabbit@lemmy.world
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    Story time. Back at uni I had a c++ subject. Me being lazy as fuck I didn’t attend many classes and let alone do the practicals during the semester. Exam time comes around. I realise I can’t cram in a whole semester’s learning in a week. Luckily it’s open book exam. Big brain time, I print the whole c++ documentation to take into the exam. I frantically page through the hundreds of pages in my lever arch file looking for answers. I pretty much copy and write example code to questions. Very sad when I failed.

  • @JATtho@sopuli.xyz
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    22 years ago
    gdb> break before it crashes
    gdb> record full
    gdb> continue
    (segfault)
    

    gdb> set exec-direction reverse

  • Ziglin (it/they)
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    12 years ago

    The code editor I had to use for Java once didn’t give me anything like that.

    Meanwhile for C you can just use gdb, it’s great!