On Monday, 29 September 2014 at 08:18:29 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
Right now, but some time ago there was a huge debate whether it
should
be valid for the compiler to optimize based on asserts.
I wonder if these 'use asserts for stack traces' and 'an assert
is
always supposed to pass, so it's valid to assume the condition
holds
(in release)' notions can go together. I guess it might at
least lead
to programs that are unusable when compiled with -release.
For this reason I think it makes more sense to use abort() if you
plan to use "-release".
