[LLVMdev] Labeling builds as Release/Debug (was: -version displays DEBUG on Visual C++ release build)

[Russell Wallace]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Óscar Fuentes <ofv at wanadoo.es> wrote:
> This doesn't seems right to me. A debug build is has debug symbols and
> asserts enabled, while a release build has not. The activation of
> optimizations doesn't imply a release build. A slightly better criteria
> is the presence of NDEBUG, which is enabled by default on release builds
> by configure and cmake, and has the advantage of being portable.

Yeah, NDEBUG is the criterion I'm using for my own code. But the
existing code does use __OPTIMIZE__, so right now that does need to be
set to get the correct version display on the release build. It adds
an additional note as to whether NDEBUG was set.