How common is this?
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I have a vague memory of working with the older Visual Studio versions (pre-. Net), and it provided a view of the actual machine code as you were debugging, and you could step through at that level. I found that quite useful at times. Is that still available when working with C++ in VS? It's been a long time since I worked with that...
It exists for C++ in VS 2017 (what I'm using at present for maintaining an older project) - Debug | Windows | Disassembly. I don't know if you can do the equivalent (see the IL?) in C# or similar...
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I have a vague memory of working with the older Visual Studio versions (pre-. Net), and it provided a view of the actual machine code as you were debugging, and you could step through at that level. I found that quite useful at times. Is that still available when working with C++ in VS? It's been a long time since I worked with that...
It's still there in VS2022, and you can step into code for which you don't have the source.
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One of the things that really helps me when coding in C++ with templates is I can easily visualize the result of the template expansion/instantiation as raw C++ (no templates) When I'm coding in C++ I can visualize the equivalent C as I'm coding. I can also to a degree, visualize the assembly. Not in any specific sense, but in a sort of pseudo-code like "I know when we're doing a shift, an add, and a push here" kind of thing. I do this to a lesser degree in C# even, when I'm considering performance. I think about C++ code required to get it to do the same thing - but like I said to a lesser degree. Do you do this? I'm just curious. It feels like such a blessing sometimes.
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One of the things that really helps me when coding in C++ with templates is I can easily visualize the result of the template expansion/instantiation as raw C++ (no templates) When I'm coding in C++ I can visualize the equivalent C as I'm coding. I can also to a degree, visualize the assembly. Not in any specific sense, but in a sort of pseudo-code like "I know when we're doing a shift, an add, and a push here" kind of thing. I do this to a lesser degree in C# even, when I'm considering performance. I think about C++ code required to get it to do the same thing - but like I said to a lesser degree. Do you do this? I'm just curious. It feels like such a blessing sometimes.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
I used to think that way about memory layouts in C/C++, but strings in the newer languages where everything wants to be on the heap make it kind of pointless. I trust the optimizers in the compilers for the execution flow. (Unless it is a C compiler from DEC where I recommend /DEBUG to disable optimizations)
