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Re:Low-Level Programming University – A roadmap to becoming ... by pacman128 on Thursday April 13, 2017 @04:01PM (#14110446)
Totally agree. When I taught x86 assembly in college (in the 90's), the goal of the class was to give the student a better idea of how things worked under the hood to improve their C programming, not to be an assembly programming.

Just today, I helped a coworker debugging a segmentation fault that occurred in a library where the debugging info was stripped out by looking at the assembly code.

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Re:Low-Level Programming University – A roadmap to becoming ... by inetknght on Thursday April 13, 2017 @07:04PM (#14111529)
> Just today, I helped a coworker debugging a segmentation fault that occurred in a library where the debugging info was stripped out by looking at the assembly code.

Being able to debug applications which don't have debuginfo (particularly optimized builds) is highly valuable though.

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