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From: | Kevin Atkinson |
Subject: | Re: [aspell-devel] Does Anyone Compile Aspell with -DNDEBUG? |
Date: | Sun, 1 Jun 2008 04:22:54 -0600 (MDT) |
On Sun, 1 Jun 2008, Peter Kümmel wrote:
Kevin Atkinson wrote:If so stop. Most asserts perform important safety checks and disabling them could lead to data corruption and other nasty things. Also, they should have a negligible effect on performance.I'm not sure if this is correct, STL checks could be expensive even when optimizing the code.
Can you please show me proof of this.
And using _DEBUG to ensure correct code in release mode is not the common way to use the safety checks.
Crashing is never the correct thing to do, but if there is a bug it may prevent more serious problems down the road.
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