Re: Debug vs. Release

Hi Johnny! 
I feel hard to write an brief example to explain the matter of
breakpoint.
"The debugger associates breakpoints with a selected line number in the
source code.  But in release build code the relationship between source
code lines and the optimized machine code can get pretty vague: There
may be no specific place in the machine code that corresponds to the
source line. "

Can anyone help me? 


A simple example:

<code>
#include <tchar.h>
void DoSomeUselessStuff(int i)
{
  int a = 0;
  for (int k=0; k<i; k++)
    a += i;
}

int _tmain()
{
  DoSomeUselessStuff(12);
}
</code>


In debug-builds, you can set a breakpoint into the function "DoSomeUselessStuff".
In release builds (/O2) you can´t... (the function will not be there)

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