[RFQ] make witness panic an option

[Andriy Gapon]

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).

-- 
Andriy Gapon