Re: [boost] Boost regression notification (2005-10-06 [RC_1_33_0])

From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-08 08:55:38

Arkadiy Vertleyb wrote:
> "Douglas Gregor" <doug.gregor_at_[hidden]> wrote
> 
> 
>>>Is GCC's debug
>>>mode
>>>a release-critical platform ?
>>
>>No.
> 
> 
> How can this be?  How useful is a feature that can be used in the release
> mode oinly?  I think its usefullness is pretty close to zero...

I agree with your questioning, Arkadiy.

People will want to use the debug mode. It's probably the best thing 
added to recent libstdc++ distributions. Severals bugs in Boost code 
were discovered using _GLIBCXX_DEBUG. I'd consider it a big loss not to 
be able to use it anymore.

Regards,
m
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