Added STAN_NO_RANGE_CHECKS helper

[bbbales2]

Summary

Added a makefile helper so:

STAN_NO_RANGE_CHECKS=true

is shorthand for

CXXFLAGS += -DSTAN_NO_RANGE_CHECKS

Tests

None

Release notes

• Allow STAN_NO_RANGE_CHECKS=true in make/local to turn off range/size checks

Checklist

• Math issue [FR] No bounds checks when NDEBUG flag is set #2420

• Copyright holder: Columbia University

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• the basic tests are passing

  • unit tests pass (to run, use: ./runTests.py test/unit)
  • header checks pass, (make test-headers)
  • dependencies checks pass, (make test-math-dependencies)
  • docs build, (make doxygen)
  • code passes the built in C++ standards checks (make cpplint)

• the code is written in idiomatic C++ and changes are documented in the doxygen

• the new changes are tested

[bbbales2]

A very complex pull for you to review @rok-cesnovar

[rok-cesnovar]

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[rok-cesnovar]

Thanks!

[bbbales2]

@rok-cesnovar mystery error here: https://jenkins.mc-stan.org/blue/organizations/jenkins/Math%20Pipeline/detail/PR-2437/1/pipeline . Just need to restart tests or seems like something legit?

Edit: Uh oh looks like it's happening over here too: https://jenkins.mc-stan.org/blue/organizations/jenkins/Math%20Pipeline/detail/PR-2434/5/pipeline

[rok-cesnovar]

This is a configuration issue (although I dont understand why it find the platform in one occasion but not in others).

[stan-buildbot]

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Name	Old Result	New Result	Ratio	Performance change( 1 - new / old )
gp_pois_regr/gp_pois_regr.stan	3.32	3.41	0.97	-2.72% slower
low_dim_corr_gauss/low_dim_corr_gauss.stan	0.02	0.02	0.98	-2.19% slower
eight_schools/eight_schools.stan	0.11	0.12	0.96	-3.71% slower
gp_regr/gp_regr.stan	0.16	0.16	1.0	0.35% faster
irt_2pl/irt_2pl.stan	5.38	5.34	1.01	0.76% faster
performance.compilation	90.95	89.0	1.02	2.14% faster
low_dim_gauss_mix_collapse/low_dim_gauss_mix_collapse.stan	8.61	8.64	1.0	-0.38% slower
pkpd/one_comp_mm_elim_abs.stan	30.14	30.49	0.99	-1.16% slower
sir/sir.stan	127.71	122.24	1.04	4.28% faster
gp_regr/gen_gp_data.stan	0.03	0.03	1.01	0.53% faster
low_dim_gauss_mix/low_dim_gauss_mix.stan	3.22	3.24	0.99	-0.65% slower
pkpd/sim_one_comp_mm_elim_abs.stan	0.38	0.38	1.0	-0.3% slower
arK/arK.stan	2.0	1.99	1.01	0.68% faster
arma/arma.stan	0.95	0.95	1.01	0.57% faster
garch/garch.stan	0.51	0.52	0.98	-1.99% slower
Mean result: 0.997841922696

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Machine information

ProductName: Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.11.6 BuildVersion: 15G22010

CPU:
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1680 v2 @ 3.00GHz

G++:
Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple LLVM version 7.0.2 (clang-700.1.81)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0
Thread model: posix

Clang:
Apple LLVM version 7.0.2 (clang-700.1.81)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0
Thread model: posix