-debug and -release

[Charlie]

I dislike how -release strips out contracts, its often valuable to have 
contracts left in even in a release build.  I believe the front end even 
has specific flags for disabling contracts and asserts, I don't think 
Walter accepted the user submitted patch though.

And while we're on the topic whatever happen to Gregor's unittest patch ?

Charlie

Daniel Keep wrote:
> 
> Manfred Nowak wrote:
>> Sean Kelly wrote
>>
>>>  I think -release is probably a bad name
>> Lurker probably has lurked at my other thread.
>>
>> I really think -dmc or -airy are good names.
>> -dmc may stand for "DeMilitarized Code" also.
>>
>> -manfred
> 
> I've never really had a problem with -debug and -release; one enables
> debugging code and the other strips out testing code for release.
> Reading the documentation makes it pretty clear what -debug and -release do.
> 
> On the other hand, -dmc looks like it enables support for DigitalMars C
> (which doesn't really make any sense), and my first thought when I saw
> -airy was "...maybe it has something to do with birds?"
> 
> 	-- Daniel
>