RE: RE: STL debug mode

["Peter Nordlund L (ERA)" <Peter dot L dot Nordlund at era dot ericsson dot se>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Edwards [mailto:phil@jaj.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 6:51 AM
> To: Peter Nordlund L (ERA)
> Cc: 'libstdc++@gcc.gnu.org'
> Subject: Re: STL debug mode
> 
... 
> 
> Two that might interest you are --enable-debug and 
> --enable-concept-checks.
> The first builds the library with maximal debug information 
> and minimum
> optimizations.  The second performs compile-time (not 
> runtime) checks of
> your STL template instantiations, which often notices the 
> same bugs that
> STLport's debug mode notices, but earlier.
> 
> 
> > If this feature is not available, is there any interest in 
> implementing it?
> 
> A massively-slow, massively-safe runtime is something I wouldn't mind
> providing, but nobody's come up with a good method of 
> implementing it yet.

I have only tested STLPort a little. It seems ok for me.
Do you know of any problems with their approach?


> We prefer to do as many checks as we can during compilation; 
> that way we can
> have them on all the time without penalizing your generated 
> program speed.
> 

Yes of course, but compile time checks will not catch
out of range errors etc, that are created during runtime.

I want both the most possible compile-time checks and also
most possible run-time checks :-)

/Peter