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Rex Couture a écrit :
> At 12:48 AM 6/11/2006, Chris Burrows wrote:
>
>> There are several compile-time options available in Blackbox but I am
>> left to wonder why I have not been able to find any documentation for
>> them. For example, to disable ASSERT statements
>>
>> DevCompiler.CompileOpt('!')
>>
>
> The documentation says,
>
> "The compiler has no compiler options. Safety-critical runtime checks are always performed...."
>
> However, one of the OMS people has previously reported on this list that subscript range checks and other runtime checks CAN be disabled by an option. Does anybody have this information?
>
> For possible future use, it might be very useful to know if there are indeed compiler options, and how to use them. For large, computation-intensive programs, there may very well be times when it is necessary to disable run-time checking, for the sake of speed.
>
> With regard to assertions, I don't know what to do about ASSERTion failures in a software product, but I can tell you what actually happens with a freestanding application: the user receives a message, "We're sorry, but the application has encountered an error and needs to close." It sounds very much like an embarrassing memory violation -- the very thing we claim is almost impossible.
>
> Rex Couture
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Reading the source code, I found some answers. I'm not at all sure they
are correct, and certainly many other things could be said about
compiler options. This should be considered as a first and quick glance
at the problem. Be cautious. Some options may be dangerous.
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