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 <summary>:beetle: Debugging Tips</summary>
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+- Use a debug build of the compiler. We have many asserts enabled in the debug compiler that can alert you to something going wrong. When building from source, build the debug compiler with `cargo build --bin roc`, the binary is at roc/target/debug/roc. When using roc through a nix flake like in [basic-cli](https://github.com/roc-lang/basic-cli), use `rocPkgs.cli-debug` instead of `rocPkgs.cli`.
 - At the bottom of [.cargo/config.toml](https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/blob/main/.cargo/config.toml) we have useful debug flags that activate certain debug prints.
 - For Roc code; minimize the code that produces the issue.
 - For segmentation faults: