Re: [PATCH] lib: drop debug_build()

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22/12/2020 07:42, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 21.12.2020 19:07, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> On 21/12/2020 16:50, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> Its expansion shouldn't be tied to NDEBUG - down the road we may want to
>>> allow enabling assertions independently of CONFIG_DEBUG.
>> I'm not sure I agree that we'll ever want to do this, but...
> Didn't you once say XenServer keeps (or kept) assertions enabled
> even in release builds?

The hypervisor RPM has two xen.gz's, a release and debug build from the
same source.

So yes - a debug hypervisor is available in a normal XenServer release,
but its not assertions in a release build of Xen.

~Andrew