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Running with Insure++



The best place to see how to use Insure++ is the Insure++ manual. It can be accessed from “Start->Programs->Insure++->Manual. But for those in a hurry, here is the “Reader’s Digest Condensed Version” with enough info to get you started. Make sure that the Insra dialog is present and being written to. If you lose your Insure license, your build may fail. If you do not have an insure++ license, no checking will be preformed.



You do not need a special configuration for building with insure++. You need to do a complete rebuild to make sure you remove all the Insure++ instrumentation that was inserted to be able to link without insure. If you want to use another configuration, this will save you having to do the complete rebuild. The “Purify_debug” configuration is available for this purpose.



· Simple Build test.



Insure++ can perform limited memory checking on non-instrumented code.

1. Use Insure++ Build Solution to build and link Software.

2. Run under the Insure++ debugger. Select Insure++ Debug from the Insure++ toolbar.

3. Errors will be displayed in the Insra dialog panel.





· Insure++ Build instrumented projects test.



Here we just use Insure++ to build and link our libraries. This method provides more of a test than the Simple Build test. The entire selected projects are instrumented.

1. Use Insure++ Rebuild Selection to build the selected project with instrumentation.

2. Use Insure++ Build Solution to link libraries into the rest of Software.

3. Run under the Insure++ debugger. Select Insure++ Debug from the Insure++ toolbar.

4. Errors will be displayed in the Insra dialog panel.



· Insure++ Build with instrumented files test.



Here we instrument selected source files with Insure++ memory checking stuff. This test provides more checking for the instrumented files. It should run a little faster than the previous way.

1. Open desired project(s) and select source files to instrument. Select Instrument File to instrument the selected files.

2. Use Insure++ Build Solution to build and relink Software

3. Run under the Insure++ debugger. Select Insure++ Debug from the Insure++ toolbar.

4. Errors will be displayed in the Insra dialog panel.





· Insure++ Rebuild Solution.



This is an extreme case. It will instrument and rebuild all of Software. This will produce an extremely slow version of Software.