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Bug 20457 – Asserts must not be turned off in release builds of dmd

Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: FIXED
Severity: regression
Priority: P1
Component: dmd
Product: D
Version: D2
Platform: All
OS: All
Creation time: 2019-12-19T08:20:22Z
Last change time: 2021-07-09T22:01:23Z
Assigned to: No Owner
Creator: Walter Bright
See also: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20130

Comments

Comment #0 by bugzilla — 2019-12-19T08:20:22Z

Because the asserts check for compiler bugs. Disabling the checks means compiler crashes instead, and much worse, corrupt code being generated.

Comment #1 by bugzilla — 2019-12-19T08:21:07Z

For example, issue 20130.

Comment #2 by dlang-bot — 2019-12-19T08:59:52Z

@WalterBright created dlang/dmd pull request #10679 "fix Issue 20457 - Asserts must not be turned off in release builds of dmd" mentioning this issue: - Issue 20457 - Asserts must not be turned off in release builds of dmd https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/10679

Comment #3 by b2.temp — 2019-12-19T12:30:43Z

*** Issue 15962 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Comment #4 by dkorpel — 2021-07-09T22:01:23Z

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/10679 got superseded by https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/11523 which got merged.