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Issue 20457 - Asserts must not be turned off in release builds of dmd
Summary: Asserts must not be turned off in release builds of dmd
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: D
Classification: Unclassified
Component: dmd (show other issues)
Version: D2
Hardware: All All
: P1 regression
Assignee: No Owner
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: 15962 (view as issue list)
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Reported: 2019-12-19 08:20 UTC by Walter Bright
Modified: 2021-07-09 22:01 UTC (History)
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Description Walter Bright 2019-12-19 08:20:22 UTC 
Because the asserts check for compiler bugs. Disabling the checks means compiler crashes instead, and much worse, corrupt code being generated.
Comment 1 Walter Bright 2019-12-19 08:21:07 UTC 
For example, issue 20130.
Comment 2 Dlang Bot 2019-12-19 08:59:52 UTC 
@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 basile-z 2019-12-19 12:30:43 UTC 
*** Issue 15962 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 4 Dennis 2021-07-09 22:01:23 UTC 
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/10679 got superseded by https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/11523 which got merged.