You know you're in for a rough debugging session ...

[Armitage]

When your program causes the debugger to segfault :disgust:

 

[Cerebus451]

Been there done that. Especially painful when the debugger segfaults and blasts the core file from the app you were trying to debug.

 

[Armitage]

I may have found it ... it's fairly trivial (read as dumb

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[Armitage]

Whoa fubared smiley?!

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[VirtualLarry]

Or.. trying to use a protected-mode DOS debugger (Watcom WDebug) to trace through some assembly code that throws the system.. into protected mode! Yeah, loads of fun there. Not.
(historic example only, from several years ago)