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  • Why is there a debug directory in my release build?

    (And other difficult conversations to have with your kids) If you’ve spent some time with MSVC you may have noticed your binary contains an IMAGE_DEBUG_DIRECTORY entry — even when building in release mode. This isn’t a new thing and this extra information was introduced in the 2015 release of Visual Studio. In fact, there’s a good…