Richard Eisenberg <r...@cs.brynmawr.edu> writes: > Hi devs, > > I almost exclusively work with a DEBUG compiler. It continually shocks > me that I'm relatively alone in this stance, as the ASSERTs littered > throughout GHC have caught many a bug in easier a manner than long > stares at -ddump-tc-trace would do. In any case, my goal in this email > is not to convince you to follow suit. My goal is to request that our > CI infrastructure include at least one testsuite run in a DEBUG > compiler. A patch I'm working on is failing a test because of an > assertion failure. I doubt my patch is the culprit, but I also can't > categorically rule it out. So, I'm left rebuilding HEAD with DEBUG > turned on to see if I can repro the ASSERTion failure. Clearly, having > a CI trace of this would simplify things -- not to mention catch bugs > earlier. > I completely agree; we do need to test DEBUG. I have an open merge request (!58) which adds support for this but it currently fails (!) and I haven't had time to look at sorting it out. I'll try to have a look today.
Cheers, - Ben
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