in/out with -release

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Saturday 05 March 2011 05:30:23 Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 3/5/11, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
> > Jonathan M Davis:
> >> Asserts are for
> >> debugging, testing, and verifying code when developing, not for code
> >> which is
> >> released.
> > 
> > If you take a look at the dmd compiler, it's released with asserts in,
> > and they give all those nice error messages I put in Bugzilla :-)
> > 
> > Bye,
> > bearophile
> 
> Hmm. Are those shown when compiling a file with -debug? Or do I need
> to compile DMD itself in debug/nonrelease mode to activate those error
> messages?

You would need to compile dmd in debug mode if you wanted it to have assertions 
enabled, the same as any other C or C++ program in existence. That's the way 
that C/C++'s assert library works.

- Jonathan M Davis