Dima,
first my apologies for the late reply -- the last few weeks have been truly
busy for me...
> I found out during time that even when I work with deal.II in debug
> mode, some bugs of my code succeed to "slip" thru the checkings or they
> cause faults before reaching deal.II interface. My impression is that
> bugs are found or debugged easier if selected underlying libraries could
> be put in dual (i.e. debug and production) mode too too.
Fair enough.
> Especially this
> is true about the debug mode of STLport, which is truely paranoidal.
The use of STLport is indeed a very good reason.
> In addition, my code is not always deal.II centric
That too, I keep forgetting that there are people like that :-)
Review of your patch coming in a minute.
Best
Wolfgang
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