Jan-Jaap van der Heijden wrote:

Hello,

The GPC runtime library (RTS) does quite a bit of checking at runtime. The ISO standards dictate this.

However, these checks slow down GPC compiled programs.

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?

This would combine the best of both worlds: checks are enabled when you debug your code, while production code has optimum speed.

Let me know your opinions,

This sound's like a pretty good idea. As to it violating the standard, who cares? Especially if there is another option that links in libgpc_g.a even without debugging. Err, just remebered, linking and compiling can now be separate, so a nother option is not needed.

Does this mean that {$I[+-]} works now?

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