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roel_v
on June 15, 2019
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Lessons learned from rewriting code
Maybe there once was a breakpoint at the return false, or an assert, and it was just left like this in case the breakpoint is needed again.
indentit
on June 15, 2019
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Modern debuggers generally support conditional breakpoints, but they often incur a high performance penalty, so this reasoning makes sense to me.
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