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From: Douglas Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-05 07:00:03


On Jul 3, 2005, at 5:31 AM, Paul Baxter wrote:
> In terms of compiler status, if there really is an issue between debug
> and
> release (usually bad compiler optimisations) shouldn't we:
> a) clearly note in the test report we're in debug or release build
> (can also
> be discovered by looking at the build directory name)
>
> b) Actually test a compiler using a reasonable set of optimisations
> since
> we're trying to report if a compiler can use Boost in actual builds,
> not in
> a no optimisation alternative.

I hadn't realized you were running a release built. It is very
important to do (for many reasons), but I think we should add
"-release" to the end of the toolset name to indicate what we're doing.
Then we can more immediately see what problems are caused by compiler
optimizations.

        Doug


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