Background We have all used the Visual Studio Debugger to step through code, in the hunt for bugs. For C or C++ code, that Debugger relies upon a file, with the extension ".pdb", called the "Program DataBase", or simply "the PDB". The PDB is written by the Linker when you build your program; it contains line-number and symbols information. But w...
We have just released an out-of-band update of Clang/C2 toolset that brings in some of the community fixes as well as bugs found from testing. This is one of many rapid releases to come in the future, and issues reported from customers will be addressed progressively. Here we only list the changes since the previous release, for a more detailed di...
Introduction This post is about Intel® Memory Protection Extensions (Intel® MPX) support in Microsoft Visual Studio* 2015; content provided by Gautham Beeraka, George Kuan, and Juan Rodriguez from Intel Corporation. Overview Update 1 for Visual Studio 2015 was announced on November 30, 2015. This update inclu...
What is this Blog About? My name is Jim Hogg, a Program Manager in the Compilers team. We would like your feedback on a feature of the Visual C++ compiler that affects the code we generate for floating-point operations. Your answers will help determine what we do. You can vote via survey -- it should not take you more than a few minutes to fill out...
Given our strong focus on improving build times of our toolset as a part of the Visual Studio 14 preview we will be changing a few defaults for Visual C++'s debug and release configuration. These changes include making /Zc:inline (remove unreferenced COMDAT) the default for debug and release configurations. /Zc:inline was introduced as a part of Vi...
Given our strong focus on improving build times of our toolset as a part of the Visual Studio 14 preview we will be changing a few defaults for Visual C++'s debug and release configuration. These changes include making /Zc:inline (remove unreferenced COMDAT) the default for debug and release configurations. /Zc:inline was introduced as a part of Vi...
In the upcoming release of Visual Studio, we are making some changes to the Visual C++ compiler switches. Two areas are impacted by these changes, 1) projects built with certain variations of /clr and 2) projects using 32-bit compiler to detect 64 bit portability issues.These changes are the outcome of our investigation of the usage rate,...
In the upcoming release of Visual Studio, we are making some changes to the Visual C++ compiler switches. Two areas are impacted by these changes, 1) projects built with certain variations of /clr and 2) projects using 32-bit compiler to detect 64 bit portability issues.These changes are the outcome of our investigation of the usage rate,...
For developer scenarios, linking takes the lion's share of the application's build time. From our investigation we know that the Visual C++ linker spends a large fraction of its time in preparing, merging and finally writing out debug information. This is especially true for non-Whole Program Optimization scenarios. In Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 ...
