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Linus once said that debuggers are for sissies. I knew he would regret saying that sometime.

Here is another of his rants against debuggers. Just substitute 'kernel debugger' by 'simple chipset debugging facilities' (whatever that means) in that email and basically he has his response for why Intel isn't adding it. http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Kernel/linus-im-a-bastard-speech.h...

Intel engineers are saying, 'simple chipset debugging facilities' are for sissies!

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Well I know he said real men use printf, but it sounds like he's putting the system in a state where it can't print to anything.

Therefore, he is putting himself in a state where he is not a real man.

This is his logic, not mine.

He put himself in a state where the only options were more difficult than printf. Therefore he exceeded his own standard for real manliness, and remains a real man.

It seems like a simple transitive relation to me; are you saying his logic neglects transitivity?

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