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digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 2020] New: version(release) is missing

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           Summary: version(release) is missing
           Product: D
           Version: 2.012
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: bugzilla digitalmars.com
        ReportedBy: wbaxter gmail.com


There are times you may want to do something differently in a final release
version, just as the built-in D array types do.

It appears this could be added fairly simply.  
In src/dmd/mars.c there's this code:


    if (global.params.release)
    {   global.params.useInvariants = 0;
        global.params.useIn = 0;
        global.params.useOut = 0;
        global.params.useAssert = 0;
        global.params.useArrayBounds = 0;
        global.params.useSwitchError = 0;
    }

I think just adding this line inside the 'if' would do the trick:

    VersionCondition::addPredefinedGlobalIdent("release");

If not, it can't be much more complicated than that.


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Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> changed:

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18:30:32 PST ---
Use-cases that I can think of:

- Enable certain code-path only when maximum performance is required (it might
be expensive at compile-time too so it's wrapped in a `version(release)`)

I can't think of anything else. In fact I'm against this. Since the user
ultimately controls the switches passed to the compiler there's nothing
stopping the user from passing `-version=release`. 

Also it could easily break linking with libraries. Suppose a library has this
code:

version(release)
{ 
    void foo(int x, int y = 1) { }
}
else 
{   
    void foo(int x) { }
}

And the user creates a static library without using -release. Then, the user
decides to compile his app with -release and use the existing precompiled
static library. He will get linker errors because the right `foo` might not
have been compiled in. (Please note that *this* example might not give you
linking errors because DMD can inline the call)

I know the same issue can appear with other version statements, however
'-release' is used often enough that this could become a common problem. And it
would be extremely confusing for novice users to get linking errors because
they've decided to use -release.

Other than that, yes it's simple to implement in the compiler.

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Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> changed:

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PST ---
There is no a version(assert) that will be enabled when assertions are enabled,
which takes care of many of the use cases where version(release) would be
useful (though clearly version(assert) is the opposite of version(release)).

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