On Aug 11, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > On Thursday, August 11, 2011 11:00 kennytm wrote: >> "Jonathan M Davis" <[email protected]> wrote: >> [snip] >> >>> Because that would be inefficient. As it stands, there's no way to >>> tell the >>> compiler, "use this library in release mode but use this library in >>> debug >>> mode." >> >> Can't you use -defaultlib and -debuglib? > > So, you could. I didn't know that they existed. I wonder if they were added > after previous discussions about this issue, since in previous discussions, > those flags never came up, and I've never noticed them before.
They were added to support the use of third-party standard libs after being requested by the Tango folks (me, actually) years ago.
