Re: problems while debugger is attached

It may or may not be your problem, but I've had many cases where, due
to the debugger assigning consistent values to uninitialized
variables, the application fails - but if I allow those to remain
uninitialized in release mode, it simply functions (on certain
machines).  In general, that's the first thing I go looking for when I
have a problem that shows in debug mode but not in release.  Usually,
it ends up being me having somehow handed a function a bad pointer to
nothing, rather than the structure I intended to send.

On 7/23/06, Andras Balogh <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a strange bug, where if I'm running the program without the
> debugger attached (CTRL-F5 in VS), the program would run correctly both in
> debug and release builds. But when I run the program with F5, so the
> debugger is attached, then it blocks on a function call and never returns.
> If I put a breakpoint before this call, and step through it, then
> everything seems to work fine, and the function returns as expected..
>
> Could this be a deadlocking problem? Any ideas why attaching a debugger
> makes any difference? And hints on how to debug this?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Andras
>
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