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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Kind of unrelated, why does c sometimes fail to print if it hits a breakpoint right after a print while debugging? Or if it segfaults right after too iirc

[–] targetx 5 points 1 month ago

Without knowing the details of C, I've seen this in other languages and it's usually something with missing a flush or a buffered output mode or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Im pretty sure its because of char 13 (carriage return). This char sets cursor to the start of the line overwriting whatever was printed there (in most terminals). I belive that some error messages use this char and when you print something the char at the begining or end of the error message overwrites your message. A workaround is simply printing a newline after or before your message.