Comment by thrwaeasddsaf

People are talking about debugging because debugging needs to be possible.

If you blow the stack in a debug build, your application fucking crashes. That makes debug builds useless and can make debugging some problems very difficult. Therefore we need a mechanism that guarantees the code doesn't blow the stack in debug builds either. "Only optimized production builds are executable" is not the path you want to go if it's avoidable.

If you don't have markup to enforce TCO in every build, some build will be broken or needs to use a different code path altogether to avoid such breakage.