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From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-10 05:49:33


John Maddock wrote:
>>>I'm not saying "you can't use it anymore" - just that the Boost
>>>release shouldn't be held up by debug-mode failures that don't
>>>affect any major platforms in their normal configuration.
>>
>>I'm claiming debug mode is a normal configuration. People want to be
>>able to get debugging aid by turning _GLIBCXX_DEBUG on. If Boost isn't
>>as usable in the debug mode as it is in release mode then this is a
>>significant impact on usability.
>
>
> I agree, the point is this mode does catch bugs, and we should test with it.
>
> However there are only so many new requirements we can introduce for a
> release and still get it out. This should be a requirement for 1.34 not
> 1.33.1 IMO.

I used _GLIBCXX_DEBUG for 1.32, already, IIRC (it was already used for
testing against prerelease versions of gcc 3.4). _GLIBCXX_DEBUG was
definitely used for 1.33.0.

Regards,
m
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