checkedint call removal

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 07/30/2014 06:43 PM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "John Colvin"  wrote in message
> news:mmnpehpddzkduycydcnh at forum.dlang.org...
>
>> So what is the recommended way of inserting a check of the sort that
>> Ola would like?
>>
>> debug enforce(expr);
>>
>> perhaps? Seeing as that statement is completely missing outside of
>> debug mode, the compiler can't do anything much about it.
>
> Don't use -release.
>
>> P.S. What about version(assert)? Could the optimiser work with this:
>>
>> if(x > 7) x++;
>> version(assert) auto testResult = x;
>> assert(x <= 7);
>
> No, version(assert) is just about doing introspection on the compiler's
> configuration.  In release mode that code doesn't even get semantically
> analysed.

Isn't this also true for assert statements?