On Monday, 6 April 2015 at 06:25:14 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
You made that change back in 2009.
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3407
-release used to turn off all bounds checking. Andrei wanted it
to stay in safe code at least so you added -noboundscheck to
appease those that wanted it off even in safe code then you
made it do bounds checking by default in safe code even if
-release was specified. There was never an option to turn on
bounds checking for all code in release mode (not until
-boundscheck=on was added). Whenever we'd discuss -noboundcheck
on the forums you'd have 5 people with 5 different ideas about
what that option did. It was very confusing.
IIRC about a year ago, when the new option was introduced,
-release was changed to keep bounds checking everywhere... ok,
looks like it was Andrei's belief, which never made it into the
source :)
