A serious security bug... caused by no bounds checking.

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 13:52:54 -0400, Tommi <tommitissari at hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, 10 April 2014 at 17:43:42 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> [..]
>> Note that I could find useful disabling of const checks, or override  
>> checks, or dynamic casts. It doesn't mean I should get a compiler  
>> switch.
>
> There's no point in turning off any safety / correctness checks that can  
> be performed at compile-time.

Unless they are warranted. See cast for instance.

> But I could see an argument made for being able to disable any given  
> category of runtime safety checks.

As a compiler switch? I don't think it's worth it. -noboundscheck does  
what it does for historical reasons, not logical.

-Steve