I recently recompiled my entire program to make sure things were still sane. Now, it crashes on startup. However, if I open it in a debugger (gdb) it works fine. How would I find out what's causing this magic bug?

Check your pointers. In debug mode, all memory pointers are NULL'ed out, so if do any delete's or operation with them, then those instructions may be ignored. In release mode, they will be some random value and will be operated upon, thus causing a crash. Make sure you are initializing them all to NULL.

Next, narrow down where the bug is. As in comment everything out and see if it works. If it does, then start adding things back in slowly as execution will allow (i.e. don't allow deinit code and not init [wink]) and see if you can find it.

If it should happen to crash before that, make sure you are using the right runtimes for your projects and all your libraries are compatible. Check over .DLL's as well.

Good luck!

Well, I just commented out a bunch of my main function and it worked. Uncommented stuff one at a time until I'd uncommented all the stuff, and it still worked. Apparently my computer was just throwing a hissy fit.

Sometimes programming just makes me angry...