Subj : Re: what's difference between release and debug compiler in MS vc6.0?
To   : comp.programming
From : wavelet
Date : Mon Oct 10 2005 01:49 pm

But does this cause different run result of programming?
Yes,the code do dynamiclly malloc a lot times....

RGS,
Wavelet
"Gene" <gene.ressler@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1128911756.070766.95750@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> One other thing that can be important is that debug links the debug
> versions of malloc(), where each malloc()'ed block contains a fairly
> large extra chunk of debugging information.  With vc6 I believe it's
> about 40 bytes.  So if you are allocating many small blocks, the debug
> version of a code can require several _times_ as much memory as the
> release version.
>

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