How can I skip common classes in VS 2008 debugger when stepping in?
For example, I do not want debugger to step into any of the std:: classes. How can I achieve that?
I've found ways of doing this in VS 2005 and earlier, but not 2008
A:
Taken from http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/windev/visualstudio.html:
Avoiding Stepping Into Things
It's often useful to avoid stepping into some common code like constructors or overloaded operators. autoexp.dat provides this capability. Add a section called "[ExecutionControl]". Add keys where the key is the function name and the value is "NoStepInto". You can specify an asterisk (*) as a wildcard as the first set of colons for a namespace or class.
autoexp.dat is only read on Visual Studio's start up.
To ignore the function myfunctionname, and all calls to the class CFoo:
[ExecutionControl]
myfunctionname=NoStepInto
CFoo::*=NoStepInto
To ignore construction and assignment of MFC CStrings: (Notice the extra = in CString::operator=.)
[ExecutionControl]
CString::CString=NoStepInto
CString::operator==NoStepInto
To ignore all ATL calls:
[ExecutionControl]
ATL::*=NoStepInto
dalle
2010-01-14 08:21:46
autoexp.dat is parsed every time the debugger starts.
Nikola Smiljanić
2010-01-14 08:30:28
I've seen this page, and just tried it again. It does not work, here is what I've found about it:Now, it used to be that to achieve that you used the [ExecutionControl] section in autoexp.dat, and seems it is widely believed to still hold. However, since 2003(!) the home of these setting is the registry.But I don't see a registry key for that, there is nothing similar to 2005's HKLM\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\NativeDE\StepOver :-S
BarsMonster
2010-01-14 08:31:04
+4
A:
You can do this by entering entries into the registry (I know, it sucks). The key you are looking for varies from 32 to 64 bit systems. For 32-bit systems the key is
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\NativeDE\StepOver
If you're running a 64 bit OS and a 32 bit Visual Studio the key is
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\NativeDE\StepOver
The Wow6432Node key is a key present for 32 bit applications running on 64 bit systems. (Sidenote: searching the registry for "_RTC_CheckEsp" probably will lead you to the right place, it's a default entry in Visual Studio 9)
The syntax should be familiar to you, but as an example, a simple entry could be string value boost\:\:.*=NoStepInto which will avoid the debugger to step into Boost. See http://www.cprogramming.com/debugging/visual-studio-msvc-debugging-NoStepInto.html for some other examples.
Hope this helps :)
larsm
2010-01-14 08:58:42
Thanks, that is exactly what was needed. Used this std\:\:.*=NoStepInto to skip all STL stuff :-)
BarsMonster
2010-01-14 09:09:47
Shouldn't it be ....\VisualStudio\9.0\... for VS2008? (8.0 is VS2005 is it not?)
AAT
2010-01-14 11:05:01