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Sometimes my code is like this.... (lemmy.ml)
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[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago

We had that in our DOS C code base. We didn’t have a debugger so we had a function that output debug messages to console if the debug flag was set.

There were more than a few instances where a crash would stop happening if we added debug messages.

We put it down to the linker rearranging modules to fit in memory as our exe was more than a megabyte in size.