flag -ignore_nogc to allow breaking nogc rules during debugging [analog to debug for pure]

[Timothee Cour via Digitalmars-d]

just more fine-grained control ... but either way.
having an escape away from nogc would be needed.


On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 1:56 AM, rsw0x via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On Sunday, 10 January 2016 at 09:17:20 UTC, Timothee Cour wrote:
>
>> this would make error handling trivial and solve issues such as this:
>>
>> FORUM:formatted assert error messages inside nogc functions
>> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/CANri+EyNyrhMWGCSqZHx_vXDJFSrwhOrV=J2kaTZ6t9-upTAtg@mail.gmail.com
>>
>> usage:
>>
>> during development:
>> dmd -debug -ignore_nogc other_flags foo.d
>> during release:
>> dmd other_flags foo.d
>>
>> @nogc
>> void test(int a){
>>
>> version(ignore_nogc)
>>   assert(a==1, text("a = ", a));
>> else
>>   assert(a==1, "a = ?");
>>
>> }
>>
>
> is there a valid reason that debug shouldn't just ignore @nogc?
> this is also an issue with contracts iirc
>
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