Re: strange NSException code

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 2 Dec 2005, at 09:30, David Ayers wrote:

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> Andrew Ruder schrieb:
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> > And on this note, is there any reason that we couldn't make debug
> > symbols in the executables by default?   I think this would be  
> > very good
> > for GNUstep and would probably be a critical part of making this  
> > crash
> > reporter tool.
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> I would like this also, and I'll dare say that I believe Alex M. also
> tweaks his config files to have this effect.

I'd like to -

1. abolish the distinction between debug and non-debug libraries (the  
_d suffix to the library name)
2. build with the -g flag at all times (debug symbols always on)
3. build with 'debug=yes' by default ... to define the DEBUG  
preprocessor constant and have debug logging facilities compiled  
in ... so you have to explcitly build with 'debug=no' for a  
production release.

Point 1 gets rid of the problems we have where we can get debug and  
non-debug versions of the library linked into the same executable.

Point 2 means we *always* have some change to debug our code even in  
production environments

Point 3 means we don't have to keep adding 'debug=yes' during  
development (after all, we develop a lot, but release production code  
only occasionally) ... but it also means we have all the debug  
facilities on a production system unless we *really* want to turn  
them off for some good reason.