The Hacks of Life

There are only two true debugging techniques: log intermediate results and divide and conquer the buggy code. They work well for performance...

(Note: for the purpose of this discussion, "global" objects means: int a; static int b; class foo { static int c; }; int foo...

I’m blogging this because I’ll never remember it otherwise. Here’s what I had to do to put Panther (OS X 10.3) back onto a disk that had ...

I just found an extremely rare bug in X-Plane caused by an uninitialized variable in a constructor; this code functioned in such a way th...

So you start off like this: #define CHECK_ERR(x) __CHECK_ERR(x,__FILE__,__LINE__) void __CHECK_ERR(const char * msg, const char * file, ...

At a past company I used to debate the merits of various software engineering techniques with my coworkers. (When someone touched a heade...

Austin is undertaking a major refactoring of X-Plane right now. First a little C++: we have a lot of code that's hard-coded to work o...