Finding run time errors?

Jim121 · Post by **Jim121** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:58 am

I was wondering if there is a program that finds run time errors?

Sylence · Post by **Sylence** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:27 am

Yep. It's called a debugger...

JP · Post by JP » Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:24 am

xD

Yeah in your IDE you can setup two builds; Release and Debug (many more in fact but those are the most common and standard ones) and those are for what they sound like they're for. The release version is the version which you would release to the public, the debug version is the one you use to track down bugs and the like, they're setup to compile in debug symbols and data so that when your app crashes the debugger can show you what line of code crashed and what state variables were in.

What IDE are you using?

Jim121 · Post by **Jim121** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:47 am

Dev-C++

JP · Post by JP » Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:28 am

Yeah that's got a debugger built into it... There should be a debug menu at the top or something... I didn't actually do any debugging back when i used DevC++ though so can't tell you much about it!

In MSVC you have seperate build configurations for each type of build so in the Debug build you can link to debug libraries (you could build a debug lib of Irrlicht if you were getting crashes inside Irrlicht) whereas in Release build you'd link to the release libraries, there's probably something similar in DevC++.

wyrmmage · Post by **wyrmmage** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:46 am

yep

wITTus · Post by **wITTus** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 3:18 pm

Dev-C++ is so damn buggy... I wouldn't recommend it anymore...

Jim121 · Post by **Jim121** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 8:00 am

I have debuged the the program and I get the following.

and

Is there any way of finding out which part of the code is responsible?