Re: strange NSException code

[David Ayers]

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Richard Frith-Macdonald schrieb:
> 
> I'd like to -
> 
> 1. abolish the distinction between debug and non-debug libraries (the 
> _d suffix to the library name)

I /violently/ agree!  Note this should porbably include the profile
suffix also.

> 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.

I have no strong prefernce here...

> 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.

Maybe we want "CVS/SVN" versions default to debug=yes and that release
tags/tarballs default to debug=no similar to gcc's --enable-checking.
OTOH since the code generation is different, we might start missing
issues.  I believe a ran into a lot of issues in gdl2 or gsweb because
it previously was only used with either debug=yes or debug=no and DEBUG
tags where misplaced wrt variable declarations and control flow issues.

But I'm fine with a strict default set to either yes or no.

Cheers,
David
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