I recently had reason to run some of my code ( I'm on OSX 10.5 ) using Xcode's guard malloc, and boy did it explode. It's odd, because the code <I>runs fine in release mode</I>. In fact, the code's ...

I wasn't worried about optimizing that method, it's only used during startup. It's not a threading issue (I think) as there are no threads running until after the CRT alloc break fires. However, ...