Maintenance and its Tools

• Use tools
  • Compiler warnings
  • Examine symbolic code
  • System call tracing
  • Debugger
  • SQL log
  • Packet dump
  • Message spy
• Work from problem manifestation to problem source
• Eschew unrelated paths
• Compile with debugging options
• Run under a debugger
  • Single step
  • Stack trace
  • Code breakpoint
  • Data breakpoint
• Add print statements

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