Am 04.08.2014 00:45, schrieb Dmitry Olshansky:
04-Aug-2014 02:35, Daniel Gibson пишет:
Am 04.08.2014 00:15, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu:
That said, should we proceed carefully about realizing this advantage?
Of course; that's a given. But I think it's very important to fully
understand the advantages of gaining an edge over the competition.
Gaining an edge over the competition?
"A new DMD release broke my code in a totally unexpected way and people
tell me it's because I'm using assert() wrong.
I've been using it like this in C/C++/Java/Python and D since forever
and *now*, after >10years, they changed D's meaning of assert() to
somehow imply assume() and optimize my safety-checks away.. they pretend
it was always planned like this but they never got around to tell anyone
until recently.
It took me a week to find this freaking bug!"
Wait a sec - it's not any better even today, it already strips them
away. So unless debugging "-release -O -inline" programs is considered a
norm nothing changes.
It strips them away, but it doesn't eliminate other code based on the
(removed) assertion. See my other post for an example.
