Debugging mechanism in Intel CPUs allows seizing control via USB port

Re:Debugging mechanism in Intel CPUs allows seizing control ... by loup-vaillant on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @01:37PM (#13367544)

There are two ways to put it: I can say "I don't need a debugger, I have printf", or I can say "I don't need gdb, printf is my debugger".

Either is fine. Most conversations about debuggers however tend to equate the debugger with something like gdb or the IDE debugging interface. People will often say the absence of such a debugger is a deal breaker for them. It feels like they forgot about printf.

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Re:Debugging mechanism in Intel CPUs allows seizing control ... by emsy on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @02:33PM (#13368128)

I also distinct between people that use a debugger to find problems in code and people that use the debugger to write code in the first place. The latter are the ones I've criticised in my original comment. I expected to receive many downvotes on this comment because most mediocre programmers I know rely heavily on the debugger for programming.

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