# Change setting of --check-bounds in user code?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/change-setting-of-check-bounds-in-user-code/69038>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [October 1, 2021, 11:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/change-setting-of-check-bounds-in-user-code/69038 "2021-10-01T11:52:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 1, 2021, 11:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/change-setting-of-check-bounds-in-user-code/69038/1 "2021-10-01T11:52:37Z")

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I’m adding a ‘–debug’ flag to my code, so that users/developers can set an integer ‘debug level’ to run the code with. I’d like one of these levels to force bounds-checking, i.e. behave as if I’d started Julia with `--check-bounds=yes`. Is this possible?