Re: [aspell-devel] Does Anyone Compile Aspell with -DNDEBUG?

[Peter Kümmel]

Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> So are you saying in order not to link with the release runtime 
> libraries NDEBUG can not be defined.  This in my option is extremely 
> stupid.

I assume "NDEBUG can not be undefined and _DEBUG defined instead".

Yes, only if we provide a dummy lib which provides the missing
debug functions (here with lyx it is only one)


> If this is the case, I don't think I can ever officially support Aspell 
> compiled with msvc.  At very least I won't be able to accept bug reports 
> for Windows binary built in release mode.  I will expand on the reasons 
> latter if necessary.

I'm very interested in your reasons and especially your experience when
not using NDEBUG in release code, because it's new to me.