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

[Peter Kümmel]

Peter Kümmel wrote:
> Peter Kümmel wrote:
> > 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)
>
> Tried it, but lyx still crashes. 

It still links against both runtime libraries. All the stl debug code
is a the debug runtime lib. Therefore I think we could not use _DEBUG
with msvc in release mode.

> Maybe because of a LyX bug, then this is
> a good example for your "#undef NDEBUG" idea, or the reason is still the
> mixing of release runtime libs and _DEBUG.
> Will investigate it further.
>
>
> > > 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.
> >
> >
> >
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