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Re: RE: STL debug mode
- From: Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>
- To: "Peter Nordlund L (ERA)" <Peter dot L dot Nordlund at era dot ericsson dot se>
- Cc: "'libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org'" <libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 03:47:12 -0400
- Subject: Re: RE: STL debug mode
- References: <6526481A986CD51189C30002A52C969702CE4FF1@Esealnt862.al.sw.ericsson.se>
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 09:16:27AM +0200, Peter Nordlund L (ERA) wrote:
> > 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.
Those are required to throw std::out_of_range exceptions, or other exception
types as required by the standard. We have to catch those kinds of mistakes
regardless of "debug" mode or any other kind of build.
Phil
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