asserts and release

[Tobias Pankrath via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 3 June 2014 at 19:21:08 UTC, Etienne wrote:
> Are asserts supposed to be evaluated in DMD release? I was 
> getting a "privileged instructions error 0xC0000096" which was 
> caused by an assert, when doing some gc programming in druntime

Is this part of the runtime precompiled? If not the compiler 
switches you've used should be effective.