NDEBUG

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan 11, 2002, "David Rasmussen" <pinkfloydhomer@yahoo.com> wrote:

> How come NDEBUG is never defined with gcc? Shouldn't it be defined when
> compiling with -O3 at least?

Assertion checking is often a good idea, even if you're optimizing the
code.  There's no reason to tie -DNDEBUG to any optimization flag; if
you mean to disable assertions, doing it is as simple as adding
-DNDEBUG to the command line.

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