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

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Kevin Atkinson wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, address@hidden wrote:
>
> > If you wanna have the checks never disabled why do you gard them or use
> > macros which doesn't work in default release mode?
>
> Defining NDEBUG is a very Windows things.   Most Unix applications that I 
> know of are not compiled with NDEBUG enabled.  Automake defaults to "-O2 -g" 
> if no flags are specified.  Also, most Unix makefiles do not have a concept 
> of "release mode".  Generally your control the different "modes" my simply 
> passing different flags to the compiler when comping of linking.

Sorry that last part should be "compiling or linking" (really should 
proof read better before sending).  By this I mean you will compile with 
CXX='-g' for debug mode and CXX='-O2' for release mode.

If it comes down to it I can use my own version of assert, but I really 
rather not.  What I might do is detect when NDEBUG is used, spit out a 
nasty warning, and add "w/ DEBUG" to the version string.