Visual Studio 2019 Edit-and-continue

From	"Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c++
Subject	Visual Studio 2019 Edit-and-continue
Date	2019-09-17 16:01 -0400
Organization	Liberty Software Foundation
Message-ID	<qlre3f$5m3$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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[If anyone knows a better place to post this question, please let me
know and I'll take it there.]

In Visual Studio 2019, when you attach to process, suspend execution,
edit code and apply changes using the edit-and-continue feature, it
does not let you detach from the process after those changes have been
made.

Does anyone know why that is?

I can possibly see the need to warn the user that the binary file
on disk will not have been updated, but why can't the altered binary
image running in memory be maintained as-is for the duration of its
life?

Seems an arbitrary limitation.

-- 
Rick C. Hodgin

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Visual Studio 2019 Edit-and-continue "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2019-09-17 16:01 -0400
  Re: Visual Studio 2019 Edit-and-continue Mr Flibble <flibbleREMOVETHISBIT@i42.co.uk> - 2019-09-17 21:41 +0100
  Re: Visual Studio 2019 Edit-and-continue Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2019-09-18 00:43 -0700
    Re: Visual Studio 2019 Edit-and-continue David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-09-18 10:18 +0200
      Re: Visual Studio 2019 Edit-and-continue Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2019-09-18 07:54 -0700
        Re: Visual Studio 2019 Edit-and-continue "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2019-09-18 11:30 -0400
          Re: Visual Studio 2019 Edit-and-continue Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2019-09-18 23:50 -0700
            Re: Visual Studio 2019 Edit-and-continue "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2019-09-19 08:31 -0400
    Re: Visual Studio 2019 Edit-and-continue "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2019-09-18 08:04 -0400
      Re: Visual Studio 2019 Edit-and-continue Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2019-09-18 08:24 -0700
        Re: Visual Studio 2019 Edit-and-continue "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2019-09-18 11:30 -0400
          Re: Visual Studio 2019 Edit-and-continue "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2019-09-18 11:33 -0400
        Re: Visual Studio 2019 Edit-and-continue Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2019-09-19 08:17 +1200
          Re: Visual Studio 2019 Edit-and-continue "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2019-09-18 16:29 -0400
            Re: Visual Studio 2019 Edit-and-continue Mr Flibble <flibbleREMOVETHISBIT@i42.co.uk> - 2019-09-18 22:27 +0100

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