Feature request: empty behavior on assert failure

[Dukc]

On Wednesday, 11 May 2022 at 09:47:32 UTC, max haughton wrote:
> If the assertions are turned off via `release` the assertions 
> are completely gone, the optimizer doesn't know about them.

Great! Only a spec change needed then.

>
> I'd also like to note that anthropomorphizing compilers can be 
> foolish,

What's anthropomorphising?

>the "compiler" doesn't consciously do any undefined
> behaviour wrangling with D as per se because the backend/s 
> don't really know anything about D.

With the present spec there's no guarantee this will remain the 
case though: 
https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#llvm-assume-intrinsic .