Typical security issues in C++: why the GC isn't your enemy

[Adam D Ruppe]

On Monday, 12 December 2022 at 12:23:08 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> The problem would be then that there's no way to disable 
> assertions, so we also need
>
>     -assertion={on|off}

Already there:

   -check=[assert|bounds|in|invariant|out|switch][=[on|off]]
                     enable or disable specific checks
   -checkaction=[D|C|halt|context]
                     behavior on assert/boundscheck/finalswitch

> And then we can drop -release.

-release should never have existed. It is absolutely unacceptable 
to ever use is in real world code under any circumstances.