Re: Unpredictable behaviour
Ron Natalie wrote:
That's the insidious feature of undefined behavior. It may indeed
work normally for a while.
There are several things that are different in debug mode and can
be peturbed by inserting inline debugging statements.
Check all your dynamic memory allocation. Any chance you are
writing off the end of an allocation. Eschew managing your own
memory in favor of classes that are already debugged like the
standard containers and strings.
Check array subscripting.
Initialize EVERYTHING. Better to have a deterministic ZERO
than an indeterministic state.
Right. Variables are laid out differently in release mode and debug mode.
The two normal causes of something working in one mode and not the other are
unititialized variables and array over/under flows. Try turning on array
bounds checking in debug mode and see if anything comes up. Tripple check
all your writings and readings from pointers and arrays. That is probably
where the error is.
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