Re: Does Anyone Compile Aspell with -DNDEBUG?

Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> 
> If so stop.  Most asserts perform important safety checks and disabling 
> them could lead to data corruption and other nasty things.  Also, they 
> should have a negligible effect on performance.

I'm not sure if this is correct, STL checks could be expensive even when
optimizing the code.

And using _DEBUG to ensure correct code in release mode is not the common
way to use the safety checks.

> 
> I am going to put a note to this effect in the manual.
> 
> I may even undefine NDEBUG if it is defined.
> 
> 
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