dmd -betterC

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

Sebastien Alaiwan wrote:

> On Wednesday, 21 June 2017 at 05:35:42 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>> asserts on embedded systems? O_O code built without -release for 
>> embedded systems? O_O
>
> embedded system != production system.
>
> You still need to debug the code, and at some point, you have to load it 
> on a real microcontroller ; this is where some of your assumptions about 
> how the chip works might turn out to be false.

as i said, in "betterc" mode compiler can omit generation of assert 
condition strings.

but refusing to generate such strings for *all* code in favor of embedded 
cases is like "let's remove classes and exceptions from D, 'cause they're 
too costly for embedded code!"