[bind10-dev] Bugs identified by STL debug mode (Re: Windows support)

[Michal 'vorner' Vaner]

Hello

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 04:23:58PM +0100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> On 11/04/2011 14:47, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, JINMEI Tatuya / ???? wrote:
> > 
> >> Thanks, and this reminded me that we used stlport (with SunStudio C++
> >> compiler) for our Solaris buildbot, which also has a debug mode.  I
> >> managed to make the code buildable with that mode, and it reported at
> >> least the following bugs:
> > 
> > Is this something I should enable specifically for an automated build? 
> 
> I think so.  If debug mode is reporting problems that are not picked up
> with our normal build settings, then we should build twice, once with
> debug mode enabled and once with our normal settings.

I don't see why to build it twice. AFAIK the only drawback of using the debug
mode is it's a lot slower, so we might just have the one with debug.

Anyway, there's -D__GLIBCXX_DEBUG (at compile time), which has a similar effect
‒ the thing is built and linked against a version of stl stuffed with huge
amount of asserts, added data to check something, etc. I tried it once like half
a year ago and it didn't build for me, and I was told we didn't really intend to
support it. So maybe we might want to investigate that one sometime as well?

With regards

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Michal 'vorner' Vaner
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