Re: how to compile in debug mode? (I'm on WIndows)

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 2005-06-23 02:06:06 +0100 Lloyd Dupont <lloyd@nova-mind.com> wrote:

> yep, I finally found that out.
>
> mhh.. quite difficult. depending on my running context (from VS.NET 
> debugger, 
> from gdb, from the console line (without debugging), with or without debug 
> library) the problem don't happen at the same time :(
>
>
> I tend to believe there is a pointer error in gnustep-base, but 
> where...??...

I know the base library is pretty good at that sort of thing ... because I 
use valgrind on programs quite frequently to track down really tricky errors 
in my distributed objects applications (built on top of the base library) 
... but unfortunately there is no guarantee that there aren't problems which 
show up only on windows :-(

Really, if you have a problem with uninitialised pointers and/or overwriting 
the ends of buffers etc, it's incredibly difficult to track down without a 
good tool.  I guess there must be good memory debug tools for windows (but 
I'm not really a windows programmer) and would recommend that you find and 
use one.  I recall that 'Purify' (a commercial product) has a good 
reputation, but I would be surprised if there aren't free products too.