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Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 11:53:08 -0400
From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
Organization: Ched Research
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Reducing sbrk test on nmalloc]
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ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se wrote:
> According to CBFalconer:
> 
> > at present I depend on NDEBUG being defined for production use.
> 
> Just "define NDEBUG 1" at the start of the file.
> 
> > don't want to have to physically revise the source to enable
> > debug runs.  This has been in there from day one and nobody
> > said anything.
> 
> When I tried it out I #defined NDEBUG because either you said so
> or I had to (it was a long time ago).
> 
> This must have showed up in my patch that I posted (a long time
> ago) to make that code compile.

The problem with that is that the sources need editing to compile
the test cases.  I consider that unclean.  For example, I could
guard that with:

 #ifndef DEBUG
 #  define NDEBUG
 #endif

if I KNOW that the DEBUG word is available.  I don't.

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