Yes, it can replace VS. By default the interface it may look a bit alien, because it is more like …
Thank you. I am only asking as all I use Visual Studio for is debugging and I was wondering if Win…
Technically you can do in VS everything you can do in WinDbg. Because VS can read and write proces…
To be more clear, is the any advantage using Visual Studio for debugging C/C++ code compared to Wi…
IMO a Development Environment/toolchain should fulfill your personal needs. As a low level develop…
windbg is more powerful. It allows to enter much more commands to do stuff VS cannot. It is very u…
One could argue that emacs and vim can be modern text editors if you put effort into customizing t…
VS2015 is fine. build.bat compiles without optimizations, so that is fine. Most likely you forgot …
Thanks guys, Maybe ratchetfreak is right since breakpoints work in any other places, but Casey can…
So, I'm just at day 8 and I'm using Emacs, with the Casey's .emacs files. As stated in the day 008…
Install engine-mode, found here: You can also install it using the package manager on Emacs. In …
Is there any benefit to using Visual Studio as a debugger over WinDbg?
@cubercaleb Thanks man the second link is just super amazing. The explanation is soooo good.
Yes, to accurately print all floating point numbers you will need to use multiple-precision intege…
No worries! Always better to have a bug found twice than to not have it found at all :)Casey
Sorry about that. Should have searched the forums more thoroughly.
Yep, it's awaiting future work: Casey
Hello! I was just reviewing the Handmade Hero code and came across something that has me confused.…
I would look into Dragon4 for starters, after that I would read this: Here is a link with the Dra…
for the last few days, I was trying to write a function that convert IEEE 754 double precision flo…
You may be debugging an optimized build. Check to see if you are building optimized, if so turn op…
Short answer: Clang is about 3 times slower than MSVC but debug info works okay (so far). Longer a…
From : It sounds like your basic debugging - setting breakpoints and stepping will work. But exam…
I am going to test it tonight. I will report on the results.
Ah I didn't know there were more columns, the Commit Size column stays the same unless a new asset…
There are a few columns regarding memory in Task Manager. The default one shown is the Private Wor…
I'm using Windows7, the task manager looks like this:
Are you looking at what the game is using or what it has gotten allocated. In windows 10 I can't e…
I opened up task manager the other day and found that my game is leaking quite a lot of memory, ab…
stepping into the middle of a function argument list isn't really supported. Though normally the d…