We should deprecate -release

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sat, Jul 13, 2024 at 01:55:16AM +0000, Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> The `-release` flag is equivalent to `-O -boundscheck=safeonly -inline`.
> 
> I think we should remove it. If you want no bounds checks, you should
> have to really want it enough to type that whole monstrosity in. It's
> trivial to avoid bounds checks by using `.ptr[index]` in `@system`
> code. In my dub projects, I rewrite the release mode to keep bounds
> checks for all code, it's that important.
> 
> What do you think? Deprecate for 3 versions, then remove.
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+1.


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