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Comment by O5vYtytb | Hacker News Reader

Wow,no kidding https://github.com/Yasushi/putty/blob/31a2ad775f393aad1c31a9...

It's beautiful and incredibly scary at the same time.

just wow, from the snippet you linked:

  *  - right-click ssh.c in the FileView
  *  - click Settings
  *  - select the C/C++ tab and the General category
  *  - under `Debug info:', select anything _other_ than `Program
  *    Database for Edit and Continue'.

Right, so in order to compile the thing you need to click "something other than". That doesn't sound deterministic.

That's ensuring the compiler obeys some behaviors of an ANSI C compiler when debugging in MS Visual Studio. That strikes me as the kind of practice that would improve determinism. The explanation is given on the line before your quote.

That said, I can't believe this exists in the wild.

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