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on 16/11/2012 01:20 Alfred Perlstein said the following:
> We need to enable developers to skip these areas and test their own code.

I wish that there was a magic knob to ignore build breakages, so that the
developers could test how their own code compiles :-)

On a serious note, why stop here?  E.g. Solaris seems to have knob to ignore all
asserts (just to print a message, but not panic).

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Andriy Gapon