Most likely cause of symptoms

[George X. Kambic, Allen-Bradley Inc.]

In article <1991Jun6.135234.18165 at auto-trol.com>, alesha at auto-trol.com (Alec Sharp) writes:
> 
> I'm trying to put together a list of symptoms, and their most likely
> causes, to help people who are trying to debug problems.  This such
> as:
> 
> Intermittent, non-reproducible problems: often memory or timing 
> dependent.  Memory problems often caused by uninitialized variables.
> 
> Bugs that can't be reproduced in the debugger: often memory or timing
> dependent.
> 
> Access violation/exception conditions:  Uninitialized variables,
> arrays out of bounds, pointers out of range.
> 
> Does anyone have other hints they use when debugging?

Try reading Myers or Beizer

GXKambic
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