halt with optional message?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday, August 11, 2011 12:44:02 Sean Kelly wrote:
> On Aug 11, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > On Thursday, August 11, 2011 11:00 kennytm wrote:
> >> "Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> >> [snip]
> >> 
> >>> Because that would be inefficient. As it stands, there's no way to
> >>> tell the
> >>> compiler, "use this library in release mode but use this library in
> >>> debug
> >>> mode."
> >> 
> >> Can't you use -defaultlib and -debuglib?
> > 
> > So, you could. I didn't know that they existed. I wonder if they were
> > added after previous discussions about this issue, since in previous
> > discussions, those flags never came up, and I've never noticed them
> > before.
> 
> They were added to support the use of third-party standard libs after being
> requested by the Tango folks (me, actually) years ago.

Well, obviously no one discussing this issue in the past has paid enough 
attention to dmd's flags, since no one has ever brought it up. Obviously, I 
need to pay more attention.

- Jonathan M Davis