memory frames in programs

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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.

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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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Mats