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Recently spent several hours fixing a bug like this (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The technical term is Heisenbug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I had this on an ESP32 once. Turned out spitting out serial console debug messages slowed things down enough to resolve a race condition when I tried to see what was happening. I learned more about using an actual debugger after that instead of spitting out "here" messages and variable values.