Re: Further adventures in the land of 64-bit linux

On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 01:06:50PM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 08:42:03PM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > > But Python is compiled with -DNDEBUG (unless you request a debug build
> > > with "configure --with-pydebug") so the assert() is not executed.
> > 
> > Maybe the farm should compile with pydebugging?
> 
> Ideally, there should be separate compilation runs with and without
> debugging.  Some things only break in a non-debug run, some bugs are
> only detected (or detected earlier or diagnosed clearlier) in a
> debugging run.
> 
> It might be worth it to try more variations too, e.g. the 2-byte and
> 4-byte Unicode options.

I've been thinking about this. We might want to have a separate
project in xenofarm that cycles through "odd" builds. On one pass, we
build wit debugging, on the next we build with UCS4, and so on.
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