Debugging
There are three versions of the Allegro library: the normal optimised code,
one with extra debugging support, and a profiling version. See the platform
specific readme files for information about how to install and link with
these alternative libs. Although you will obviously want to use the
optimised library for the final version of your program, it can be very
useful to link with the debug lib while you are working on it, because this
will make debugging much easier, and includes assert tests that will help to
locate errors in your code at an earlier stage. Allegro also contains some
debugging helper functions: