Thread: Debug information?

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    Student Forever! bookworm's Avatar
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    Post Debug information?

    I have downloaded the Insight debugger,but whenver I try to run it on a project,it says that there is no debugging info present. I use bloodshed Dev 5 and the GNU debugger which is a console app. says the same thing.
    What do I do?

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    With most development systems, you can choose the amount of information you want in the .exe file. With MS VC++ for example, you specify "Release" or "Debug" builds. What selecting the debug build does is loads the .exe with hooks and all kinds of goodies that the debugger can latch onto and do it's job.

    Once you are satisfied with your code, you compile a release version, which takes all of that stuff out and turns the compilers optimiser on, making the code faster and a lot smaller.

    I suspect you are trying to run a debugger against an .exe that has no debugging information in it, hence the message.
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    >>> You forgot to mention,

    Valid point.
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