Thread: memory frames in programs

Originally Posted by brewbuck

Then it is not a "debug" build. But it doesn't really matter. The extra data in a debug build is only used by the debugger, not the program itself.

It's not used by the program itself, but for example extra data in heap allocations may be used to track memory leaks, double-frees and, as explained earlier, buffer overruns. This data is certainly used at runtime, not by the debugger.

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