Question Is there any way to have burst safety checks in a build?

We're trying to track down a particularly obscure issue, and while the editor + safety checks is critical it would be easier if this were in a build. Is there any way to have these safety checks (particularly the native array access out of bounds exception) in a build?

Thanks!

 

I believe the Native Container Safety System is placed in blocks of code surrounded by the

ENABLE_UNITY_COLLECTIONS_CHECKS

compilation flag. Adding this flag to a release build should include all of that safety logic, like the out-of-bounds checks you mentioned. For more information on conditional compilation, you can view this page in the documentation. I'm not an expert though, so there's a chance there are more steps required to make it work.

 

Thank you for the reply!

Unfortunately Unity fails to build with that flag due to "AtomicSafetyHandle" not being found. From the searching I've done it appears that AtomicSafetyHandle is editor only. Is there any information about including this in some form of build?

 

Ah... Yeah, sorry about that. Thinking back I may have even encountered that exact problem with Atomic Safety Handles in the past. Unless someone with more knowledge on the field has an answer to this, the only solution I can think of is to code your own drop-in replacement for NativeArrays which does not omit bounds checking at runtime, or have a wrapper class around a NativeArray which does the checks for you. That may not even be too expensive in terms of performance if you inline the wrapper methods and apply similar conditional compilation to your own checks (so they can be removed easily for a final build). Of course that's not a real replacement for Unity's system, however since you're putting most emphasis on bounds checking, this may be the most convenient solution.

Good luck!

 

All good and no worries. Would be convenient during development -- having that nice readable stacktrace is useful for the odd thing that slips through vs just having the game 'stop working' spectacularly.

I appreciate the response!