Re: Does Anyone Compile Aspell with -DNDEBUG?

Peter Kümmel <[email protected]> Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:15:35 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.aspell.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Peter Kümmel wrote:
> Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>>
>> So are you saying in order not to link with the release runtime 
>> libraries NDEBUG can not be defined.  This in my option is extremely 
>> stupid.
> 
> I assume "NDEBUG can not be undefined and _DEBUG defined instead".
> 
> Yes, only if we provide a dummy lib which provides the missing
> debug functions (here with lyx it is only one)

Tried it, but lyx still crashes. Maybe because of a LyX bug, then this is
a good example for your "#undef NDEBUG" idea, or the reason is still the
mixing of release runtime libs and _DEBUG.
Will investigate it further.


> 
> 
>>
>> If this is the case, I don't think I can ever officially support 
>> Aspell compiled with msvc.  At very least I won't be able to accept 
>> bug reports for Windows binary built in release mode.  I will expand 
>> on the reasons latter if necessary.
> 
> I'm very interested in your reasons and especially your experience when
> not using NDEBUG in release code, because it's new to me.
> 
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