Re: [Freemint-discuss] Debugging a problem in gcc-14

[Miro K. <mir...@gm...>]

On Thu, 6 Jun 2024 at 17:23, Thorsten Otto <ad...@th...> wrote:

> As far as i've seen, that mostly enable some assertion checks. That should
> normally be hardly noticable, given that the compiler is surely already not
> very fast on real hardware.
>
>From my experience on working on ScummVM, asserts did make a big
difference. People normally (i.e. on PC) don't notice them (except some
extreme cases) but on Atari, all it takes is one assert in an often-called
inner loop and performance goes 50% down.

I have no problem removing that again, with the risc that if the compiler
> generates bad code, this will be harder to notice. In the worst case, it
> will cause you to hunt bugs in your code that are really just the compilers
> fault ;)
>
If you take into account that such a bug occurs maybe once per year, I
think it's ok. We can always provide an additional build with the check(s)
enabled when such situations occur.

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