-debug and -release

[Tomas Lindquist Olsen]

Regan Heath wrote:

> Don Clugston Wrote:
>> I only just discovered that assert(0) is _not_ disabled by -release. I
>> didn't find that mentioned in the documentation.
> 
> Perhaps we want a table of things with the various compile flags which
> enable/disable them in the docs.  Similar to the comparison table for
> structs, classes, etc.
> 
> Regan Heath

Until that happens, you can look inside the 'dmd/mars.c' file of the dmd
frontend source code. The options parsing happens here and it's fairly easy
to follow. For example the -release flag does this:

... snip ...

else if (strcmp(p + 1, "release") == 0)
        global.params.release = 1;

... snip ...

if (global.params.release)
    {   global.params.useInvariants = 0;
        global.params.useIn = 0;
        global.params.useOut = 0;
        global.params.useAssert = 0;
        global.params.useArrayBounds = 0;
        global.params.useSwitchError = 0;
    }