Re: Detecting the source of an access violation?

From:

"Scott McPhillips [MVP]" <org-dot-mvps-at-scottmcp>

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microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:19:40 -0400

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Peter Olcott wrote:

This advice turned out to finally solve the problem, but,
only after I explicitly turned {Just In Time} debugging on.
I could NOT run under the debugger, because every time that
I ran under the debugger the problem went away.

If I create a release build with debug database and a link
with debug symbols, and had just in time debugging turned
on, then when I got the exception I told it to debug, and it
went to the line number of the source file with the error.
Another advantage with this approach of {after the fact
debugging}was that the release build ran a fully optimized
speed, So I only had to wait 8 minutes for my results rather
than two hours.

Thanks for the help, my debugging skills have just improved
because of your excellent advice. Before your advice I had
assumed the you could either have a debug build or a release
built, now I know that you can have very useful hybrid
combinations of both.

You're very welcome.

So is there a useful lesson for us all here? What kind of error
happened only when not running under the debugger?

--
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