Another great post from Bruce Dawson,
with some valuable tips to check compiler flags in Visual Studio to aid debugging of an entire class of crashes.
/GS, /NXCOMPAT, /DYNAMICBASE, /analyze and all its associated labors – plus actually fixing the bug – took a lot of time, but it was definitely worth it. Most of these changes were trivial and had huge payoffs. Running /analyze was by far the biggest task but, like other smart programmers, I am convinced that it was invaluable. Entire classes of bugs – serious crashing bugs and crazy logic errors – that use to show up quite frequently are now entirely extinct. It is not often that you get to entirely eradicate dozens of types of bugs and doing this definitely increased developer productivity and product reliability.
I’ll certainly check these are set for the projects that I own.
musingstudio 