Debug / Release Mode

At compile time Str Library needs to know whether it is compiled in Debug or Release mode. The major differences between the two are:

• In debug mode, most optimizations are turned off
• In debug mode, Str Library allocates more memory than strictly needed and attempts to detect buffer overwrite and stray pointer issues
• In debug mode, when thread safety is also enabled, Str Library makes sure that for non-MT-marked objects, only the creator thread attempts modify operations
• In debug mode, several unusual conditions that represent programming errors are checked in the code and an ASSERT-ion is thrown if a bad state is detected.

Programs using Str Library should always be compiled with one of the following two conditional symbols defined:

	#define _DEBUG
	#define NDEBUG

See also: Str conditional defines