Re: "stop debugging" versus OnOK

From:
"Alex Blekhman" <xfkt@oohay.moc>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:45:35 +0200
Message-ID:
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<runcyclexcski@yahoo.com> wrote:

Does OnOK get called when "stop debugging" is clicked in
.NET?

I've never seen any memory leaks in my program until I
started creating
threads. Turns out, clicking "stop debugging" does not
kill threads
that I irresponsibly did not close. This ultimately lead
to multiple
BSODs in my case.

So I started killing my program softly, by first cleaning
up the memory
and closing all threads within OnOK first. But now I get
"memory leaks"
complaints that I've never seen with "stop debugging".


You didn't specify what kind of application you're
developing. Is it .NET application? Native? Using MFC or
just Win32 API? What is your development environment? How do
you see these memory leaks?

In general, "stop debugging" button in Visual Studio
debugger just kills debugee. A process is killed immediately
without any traces of its life. On the other hand, when you
exit program gracefully (via OK button, Close menu, Alt+F4
or whatever), then process exists naturally. All cleanup
code is executed and recources released. Now it's
developer's responsibility to clean up and release whatever
was allocated during process lifetime.

HTH
Alex

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