halt with optional message?

[Sean Kelly]

On Aug 11, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> On Thursday, August 11, 2011 11:00 kennytm wrote:
>> "Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
>> [snip]
>> 
>>> Because that would be inefficient. As it stands, there's no way to
>>> tell the
>>> compiler, "use this library in release mode but use this library in
>>> debug
>>> mode."
>> 
>> Can't you use -defaultlib and -debuglib?
> 
> So, you could. I didn't know that they existed. I wonder if they were added 
> after previous discussions about this issue, since in previous discussions, 
> those flags never came up, and I've never noticed them before. 

They were added to support the use of third-party standard libs after being requested by the Tango folks (me, actually) years ago.