[maemo-developers] G_DISABLE_CAST_CHECKS in packages an maybe on builders

[From: Graham Cobb]

On Friday 19 March 2010 14:42:05 Stefan Kost wrote:
> I noticed that still lots of packages that use GObject are not disable
> GObject cast checks in their builds. *It is a safe thing to do*. The
> macro is doing a cast, if checking is enabled it checks and warn in the
> case of an mismatch. The check is pointless in device that is running a
> PR image as we have the (sys)logging turned off. So we can also turn off
> the checks (the checks are not preventing anything). This makes binaries
> smaller and faster.

That is a good suggestion for production binaries.  However, for beta binaries 
I would prefer to leave it on -- I find the console mesages very useful 
during testing (and I run syslog on my development device as well).

> I wonder if it would make sense to disable this globally on the package
> builder. Having the check enabled is most useful in conjunction with
> defining G_DEBUG="fatal_warnings" and checking for coredumps.

No thanks, at least not without a way to override it.

Graham