[GNC-dev] Debug build in production?

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us
Sat May 5 07:25:49 EDT 2018



> On May 4, 2018, at 8:06 PM, Eric Siegerman <pub08-gnc at davor.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 10:37:22PM +0200, Geert Janssens wrote:
>> A debug build will tell the compiler to avoid several optimizations.
>> [thus bigger and slower]
> 
> Cool; that I'm perfectly OK with.
> 
> I guess what I mostly had in mind was warnings I've seen in some
> projects that debug builds are less stable than release builds
> (due to extra error-checking code, I believe).  Sounds like
> GnuCash doesn't do that, though.

Sounds like some projects are using asserts in places that more graceful runtime checks would be more appropriate...

Regards,
John Ralls


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