Delphi compiler settings for debugging

To be able to use the built-in debugger efficiently (and the same applies to external debuggers like TDW - Turbo Debugger for Windows), you need to ensure a few compiler settings are set the right way.

Important settings are:

1. Optimization Off
   Enabling optimization would prevent you from examining the value of a variable after it has gone out of scope. A variable is gone out of scope if there is no further reading access to this variable in the flow of code even though you may be far from the end of a function's code block. At that point it is no longer available for inspection - there's no point holding on to what no one else is going to need, right? Usually this seems to happen just right after you want to look at this value.. but instead you get an error message "Variable 'XXX' inaccessible here due to optimization".
   So turn off optimizations for your debugging builds.
   
2. Stack Frames On
   This supports the ability to view the call stack. If this option is not turned on, then certain types of calls will be optimized to the point where they cannot be viewed.

A production build should never include enabled assertions!

	var iResult : integer; begin // good assertion // program flow is the same with assertions enabled or disabled iResult := function_call(x); assert(iResult > 0); // bad idea for an assertion: assert(function_call(x) > 0);