NDEBUG has no effect on this, for a long time.
bool BADCOOKIE_AGAIN : 1;/**< Query again because bad cookie returned. */
bool CNAME : 1; /**< Query response contains CNAME in answer section. */
bool REORDER_RR : 1; /**< Reorder cached RRs. */
- bool TRACE : 1; /**< Log answer with kr_verbose_log(), unless -DNDEBUG. */
+ bool TRACE : 1; /**< Also log answers if --verbose. */
bool NO_0X20 : 1; /**< Disable query case randomization . */
bool DNSSEC_NODS : 1; /**< DS non-existance is proven */
bool DNSSEC_OPTOUT : 1; /**< Closest encloser proof has optout */