Modern debuggers contain one more debugging information window that can be very useful in debugging your program, and that is the call stack window. When your program calls a function, you already know that it bookmarks the current location, makes the function call, and then returns. How does it know …
While stepping (covered in lesson ) is useful for examining each individual line of your code in isolation, in a large program, it can take a long time to step through your code to even get to the point where you want to examine in more detail. Fortunately, modern debuggers …
In the previous lesson (), we started exploring how to manually debug problems. In that lesson, we offered some criticisms of using statements to print debug text: Debug statements clutter your code. Debug statements clutter the output of your program. Debug statements require modification of your code to both add …
In the previous lesson, we explored a strategy for finding issues by running our programs and using guesswork to home in on where the problem is. In this lesson, we’ll explore some basic tactics for actually making those guesses and collecting information to help find issues. Let’s start with an …
When debugging a program, in most cases the vast majority of your time will be spent trying to find where the error actually is. Once the issue is found, the remaining steps (fixing the issue and validating that the issue was fixed) are often trivial in comparison. In this lesson, …
Let’s say you’ve written a program, and it’s not working correctly — the code all compiles fine, but when you run it, you’re getting an incorrect result. You must have a semantic error somewhere. How can you find it? If you’ve been following best practices by writing a little bit …
Software errors are prevalent. It’s easy to make them, and it’s hard to find them. In this chapter, we’ll explore topics related to the finding and removal of bugs within our C++ programs, including learning how to use the integrated debugger that is part of our IDE. Although debugging tools …
A is a reusable sequence of statements designed to do a particular job. Functions you write yourself are called functions. A is an expression that tells the CPU to execute a function. The function initiating the function call is the , and the function being called is the or function. …
Consider the following program: #include <iostream> int main() { // get a value from the user std::cout << “Enter an integer: “; int num{}; std::cin >> num; // print the value doubled std::cout << num << ” doubled is: ” << num * 2 << ‘\n’; return 0; } This …
The preceding lessons have introduced a lot of terminology and concepts that we’ll use in just about every program we create. In this lesson, we’ll walk through the process of integrating this knowledge into our first simple program. First, let’s create a program that asks the user to enter an …
