Phil Nelson wrote:

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Would it be a violation of the standards if we were to have two RTS libraries (libgpc.a and libgpc_g.a), where libgpc_g.a is linked if the '-g' compiler switch is used, and libgpc.a (no checks) otherwise?

I would prefer to see the checks being standard and adding a flag to get better performance. For example, if any -O flag is used, then use the library without the checks.

I'd even prefer yet another switch. Sometimes one wants optimization with checking on, and sometimes one even wants to distribute code (i.e. without -g) with checks, namely when the code is not time-critical, but it's important that it's correct (suid root :-)...