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- Subject: Re: [eigen] MSVC debug tools
- From: Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:45:15 -0500
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Is that something that could be added to debug/msvc/ ?
Perhaps along with some explanatory text?
Benoit
2009/12/20 Hauke Heibel <hauke.heibel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I am already on holidays - though occasionally reading the list...
>
> I know about these things and they are cool. It's just that you have to be
> aware of the fact that fiddling with the registry always incurrs some
> danger. But other than that this is actually a really nice feature. Other
> classes for which this is nifty since they are bugging are
> std::tr1::shared_ptr and alike.
>
> Cheers,
> Hauke
>
> p.s.: Just be aware of the fact that the file supplied by Björn is VC9
> (Visual Studio 2008) specific! On the other hand-side I dare to say that the
> changes are really harmless and should not hurt your system...
>
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> This stuff seems very exciting, but the chief of MSVC debugging stuff
>> here is Hauke so let's wait for his reply, personnally I don't have
>> MSVC to try it!
>> Benoit
>>
>> 2009/12/18 Björn Piltz <bjornpiltz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> > There is an undocumented feature in Visual Studio which let's you
>> > avoid stepping into certain functions when you're debugging. This
>> > could be very helpful when debugging Eigen, since you often have to
>> > step in and out of trivial functions before getting to the real
>> > functionality.
>> > e.g. :
>> > return
>> > ei_assign_selector<Derived,OtherDerived,false>::run(this->derived(),
>> > other.derived());
>> > Here you would have to step into derived() twice, before getting into
>> > the more interesting run().
>> > The fix consists of adding the following registry key to
>> > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\NativeDE\StepOver
>> > Eigen\:\:.*\:\:derived=NoStepInto
>> > or
>> > Eigen\:\:.*Base\<.*\>\:\:.*Base\<.*\>=NoStepInto
>> > which will disable stepping into any empty constructor like
>> > MatrixBase::MatrixBase()
>> > I have attached a registry patch, but it would be great if someone
>> > could test it before I put it on the wiki. Also post candidates here
>> > for the most annoying functions to be included.
>> > You have to rename the file to .reg to use it.
>> > For reference here is a blog post describing the feature
>> > http://blogs.msdn.com/andypennell/archive/2004/02/06/69004.aspx.
>> >
>> > Björn
>> >
>>
>>
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