[Libreoffice] Usefulness of --enable-dbgutil

[David Tardon]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 09:50:13PM +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> (I must say I am a bit disappointed at the GNU C++ library here: this
> thing that you can't mix code compiled with and without that define,
> and don't even get any linkage error if you do anyway, doesn't sound
> very elegant; in fact it sounds like something people would laugh at
> Microsoft for doing... But of course I am mostly clueless about the
> details, there might be good reasons why doing it otherwise would be a
> bad idea.)

Actually change of the default value of _ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL (which, as
far as I understand it, is the MSVC's equivalent of _GLIBCXX_DEBUG)
breaks ABI compatibility too. But at least MSVC linker enforces that all
objects and dlls have the same _ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL value...

D.