Purposefully debugging without using a debugger?

Question

In chapter 5 of \"The Practice of Programming\" Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike write:

As a personal choice, we tend not to use debuggers beyond getting a st

Answer 1

When I have a reproducable scenario I definitly use the debugger to track down that bug. Otherwise it is basically used only to get a stack trace from a core dump.

Traces are the basis to start to work on an issue

NB Embedded application in vehicle.