[GD-Windows] RE:Strange debugging problem

[Kevin W. <krw...@ho...>]

This kind of problem is generally caused by having an
expression in a watch list that invokes some code
in your app that sometimes behaves oddly (e.g., hangs).
Whenever dev studio hits a breakpoint or for any other
reason 'returns to the debugger after executing app code'
it re-evaluates all the expressions in your watch lists, even
the ones you aren't currently viewing.  This can cause
really mysterious and frustrating behaviour :).  The answer
is 'clear your watch lists when this happens'.

Kevin Wasserman
Mad Doc Software

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>Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:07:41 -0800
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>Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:00:07 -0700
>From: "Andras Balogh" <and...@gm...>
>To: gam...@li...
>Subject: [GD-Windows] strange debugging problem
>Reply-To: gam...@li...
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>While my application is running, I can use alt-tab to switch to other
>programs and then switch back, and all this seems to work fine. However,
>when I switch to Visual Studio, and put a breakpoint in the source, while
>the program is running under the debugger, the program just.. well.. I
>don't know how to describe it, it kinda hangs, but it does this in a very
>strange way. The VS debugger says it's still running, but when I try to
>break into it (using the break all command that should just stop at the
>current instruction, wherever it is), it can't. The callstack window does
>not respond anymore, and I can not continue, or step anymore.. The only
>button on VS that works is the stop debugging. And it's funny, but when I
>say stop, I can actually see a couple more messages in the debug output
>window that my program is writing out..
>
>Anyone experienced anything like this? Any ideas about what might cause
>it, and possible workarounds?
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>This is on VC++ 7.1 /Win32 XP
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>thx,
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>Andras