assert expression in release mode

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Monday, 23 March 2020 at 10:08:58 UTC, drug wrote:
> Before I lived in assurance that asserts are actual only in 
> debug mode and in release mode they are nothing (except 
> `assert(0)`). But today my whole life is going sour because I 
> stumbled upon assert in release mode and of course that assert 
> is failing.
>
> This doc 
> https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#assert_expressions say 
> nothing about debug mode vs release mode.
>
> So the question is when and why assert expression is enabled in 
> release mode (besides assert(0))

E.g. https://dlang.org/dmd-osx.html#switch-release

There are also other switches like -boundscheck and -check. It’s 
possible you have some library or project that is causing the 
behavior.

-Steve