Program only crashes as release build — how to debug?

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In 100% of the cases I’ve seen or heard of, where a C or C++ program runs fine in the debugger but fails when run outside, the cause has been writing past the end of a function local array. (The debugger puts more on the stack, so you’re less likely to overwrite something important.)

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