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

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008, Peter Kümmel wrote:

> Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> > On Sun, 1 Jun 2008, Peter Kümmel wrote:
> >
> > > Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > It is just a impression because I've never heard about such a strategy to
> > > ensure correctness. I only know, in debug mode msvc-stl-code is several
> > > times slower than in release mode, due to disabling optimizations and
> > > executing additional checks.
> > > But a proof would only be a aspell benchmark which I don't have.
>
> I've tried to benchmark with lyx and msvc, but it is not possible with msvc
> (which means nothing in a gnu project). There a different runtime libraries
> for debug und release which must not be mixed, but using _DEBUG enforces
> linking against both runtime libraries.
> But I assume gcc doesn't have such limitations.

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.

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.