Free build with complete symbol and locals info

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If I don’t care about optimization, will /Od do the trick?
And will cl=/Od override the build defaults?

thanks,
m navab

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If you don’t care about optimization and you want complete debugging
information that is the definition of the checked build, why do you want to
redefine you free build to be checked? You can distribute a checked build,
it is just not recommended.

–
Don Burn (MVP, Windows DKD)
Windows Filesystem and Driver Consulting
Website: http://www.windrvr.com
Blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/WinDrvr

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A fre or chk build has nothing to do with symbol generation. You get full symbols on a fre build just like you get on a chk build. The different is that if the binary is optimized, the symbols do not track the new lifetime of passed in parameters or locals or how the code might have been rearranged. Basically, the symbols do not match the optimizations the compiler added, but the symbols are complete

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If I don’t care about optimization, will /Od do the trick?
And will cl=/Od override the build defaults?

thanks,
m navab

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I’d like to debug any dtm issues. I don’t think you can submit ckecked builds for dtm signature.
At least I thought you couldn’t for whql.

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xxxxx@yahoo.com wrote:

I’d like to debug any dtm issues. I don’t think you can submit ckecked builds for dtm signature.
At least I thought you couldn’t for whql.

Well, hold on a minute. You certainly are not going to submit your
checked driver to WHQL, since it will cost you money to do so. You are
going to run your checked driver through DTM on your own test system,
right? For that, you can certainly try a checked driver.

Remember, WHQL doesn’t actually run DTM on your driver. In fact, they
don’t run your driver at all. YOU run DTM and submit the logs to WHQL.
WHQL looks over the logs, and if they are all in order, issues the
signature.

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Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.