Re: [Boost-Users] Re: Boost.Thread (VC specific)

From: Jim M (JimM_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-04-30 16:21:37

From: "bill_kempf" <williamkempf_at_[hidden]> 	[ Tue, 30 Apr 2002
15:53:38 -0000 ]

>> Might not be a great idea, but it definitely is a good one. You 
>> don't 
>> have to redistribute the PDB files with your application, and who 
>> haven't been bitten by things that don't work in release mode that 
>> used to in debug? I'm aware that stepping through the source in 
>> release mode doesn't tell the entire truth due to compiler 
>> optimizations, but it still is _invaluable_ some times.
>
>I don't agree.  If it's a good idea, then I'd expect MS to do this by 
>default for IDE generated builds.  

I personally wouldn't use MS as a shining example of what they
consider "the best defaults" and stand by them on it :)

>There's some overhead involved in 
>generating this, there's compile time overhead (which is important to 
>some), and there's the fact that many users will be confused by the 
>presence of debug information and why "stepping" through the code 
>behaves so strangely and unpredictably.

It is damn handy to have pdb info in a release build.  More handier
than having non at all and stepping into plain asm-code.  I've not
released a release-version of an exe/dll without having a pdb around
since I learnt how to use them, and is a neck-saver in certain
circumstances...   

...  but I was only really replying to your "MS default settings"
comment which I feel is a bit dangerous :)

Jim M
-- 
@ Derbyshire