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Many years ago a friend of mine was working on a mocked up ATM type system that ran over a serial line. This included some self-tests to make sure that the line was up and running okay. When writing the self-test code he kept hitting this problem where the working test line was being diagnosed as failing. Spent most of a day going over the assembler code in question. We got to the stage where we were questioning the serial driver hardware in the machines and were looking around for spares. Very late that day we finally thought to check that the test lead was actually working... You should have heard the howls when we realised we'd wasted most of a day on some dodgy wiring. I still look back at that and wonder at our complete inability to accept that a few hundred bytes of obvious code was working properly. We knew that it must be a bug :-) It proved a salutary lesson for me. Always try and disable your assumptions when debugging and look at what is actually happening. In reply to Re: Suspending Disbelief While Debugging
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