Question

I have the following function that was written in c++:

int CompareStrings(IN const string& str1, IN const string& str2)
{
return str1.compare(str2);
}

I want at run time to debug it, but when I try to add watch this line str1.compare(str2);, I receive “CXX0052: Error: member function not present”,

does anyone know why?

Answer 1

int CompareStrings(IN const string& str1, IN const string& str2)
{
 int x = str1.compare(str2);
 return x;
}

One way is to simply do above. In Debug unoptimized build you will have x to watch and inspect and in Release build it will be optimized away.

In Visual Studio 2011 you can actually do s1.compare(s2) in the debugger 🙂 and view the results