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Abel
Abel

Reputation: 57169

What's the difference between a free build and a checked build?

I just installed the Windows Driver Kit for XP - Windows 7 and this may come as a silly question, but what is the difference between a "free build" and a "checked build"?

PS: I'm not a driver developer, I installed it merely to check some header files for P/Invoke.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2140

Answers (2)

cxxl
cxxl

Reputation: 5389

I would like to add that "checked" build also usually have a lot of assert() calls, thus checking parameters, etc. much more vigorously.

Upvotes: 1

Mahmoud Al-Qudsi
Mahmoud Al-Qudsi

Reputation: 29579

Driver developers will often run their code on "checked" Windows builds - Windows editions that have been compiled without optimizations and are, as such, easier to debug crashes on and will product better memory dumps and have more accurately matching symbols.

The "free" builds are the normal releases.

Upvotes: 3

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