Go to disassembly

[jordanguyoflove]

Hi,

Today I discovered while debugging an option: Go to disassembly.

Then I get a new tab in visual studio, this is an excerpt:

7C816FCC  push        0FFFFFFFEh 
7C816FCE  call        dword ptr ds:[7C8013A0h] 
7C816FD4  call        dword ptr [ebp+8] 
7C816FD7  push        eax  
7C816FD8  call        7C80C058

This looks like assembly language.

Is it assembly? How and why would I use it when writing my C code.

Thanks.

[matsp]

That is indeed assembler code.

It is pretty useless for writing C code, it is more for debugging when you want to see what the compiler actually did with your code - or when you have no source code and still need to debug something. In particular, debugging code that has been optimized can actually be EASIER than using source code, because the code gets so mangled in the optimization stage (such as assignments of variables gets moved around, if/else statements re-ordered, etc).

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Mats