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Subject: Re: [lkcd-general] Re: What's left over.
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On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 14:45, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
> Good! This means, people debugging the code have actually to think and
> don't produce "turn on debugger, step here, there, patch a band aid,

Some of us debug hardware. Regardless of the nice theories about
reviewing your code they don't actually work on hardware because no
amount of code review will let you discover things like undocumented 
2uS deskew delays, or errors in DMA engines


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