Am 26.03.2019 um 11:46 schrieb William F Pokorny:

> Quick additional question. Is it the --enable-debug configure flag that 
> - normally - turns on the pov asserts? I've never verified this 
> assumption of mine by creating a pov assert in the code I know should fail.

To be honest, I haven't a clue. I'm not sure what the `--enable-debug` 
flag does exactly (it's some standard mechanism in the Automake tools), 
nor whether and how assertions are enabled or disabled in Unix builds.

I'm pretty sure that `--enable-debug` does enable the creation of debug 
information in the binaries, so that a debugging tool can correlate 
binary code addresses with original source code lines, so that you can 
e.g. set breakpoints and step through the code line by line with a 
debugger. I also wouldn't be surprised if it turns off optimizations by 
default, because those tend to re-order instructions and make a 
line-by-line correlation impossible. Whether it does anything beyond 
that I do not know. It might dictate whether `NDEBUG` is defined or not, 
which would conceivably disable/enable assertions.

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