[Bug symtab/27937] Performance regression of 8% due to assert in dwarf/read/attribute.h

[tromey at sourceware dot org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27937

--- Comment #2 from Tom Tromey <tromey at sourceware dot org> ---
(In reply to Simon Marchi from comment #1)
> I sometimes wonder if we should have a gdb_assert version that is only
> enabled in development builds, that we could use in very hot paths like this
> one, without affecting performance of production builds.

Seems reasonable to me, and especially for this assert, which just introduces
a new check that didn't even exist in earlier versions.  That is, removing
the assert or having it not run in production is identical to the status quo
ante.

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