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

[Kevin Atkinson]

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.