Merge pull request #2437 from stan-dev/feature/issue-2420-2

Added STAN_NO_RANGE_CHECKS helper

Author: rok-cesnovar

.github/workflows/header_checks.yml

@@ -78,5 +78,5 @@ jobs:
 
     - name: Run header tests
       run: |
-        echo "CXXFLAGS+=-DSTAN_NO_RANGE_CHECKS" > make/local
+        echo "STAN_NO_RANGE_CHECKS=true" > make/local
         ./runTests.py -j2 ./test/unit/math/prim/err/

make/compiler_flags

@@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ CXX_MINOR := $(word 2,$(subst ., ,$(CXX_VERSION)))
 # LDFLAGS_MPI_FLTO: For adding flto options to MPI build
 ##
 
+ifdef STAN_NO_RANGE_CHECKS
+  CXXFLAGS_THREADS ?= -DSTAN_NO_RANGE_CHECKS
+endif
+
 ################################################################################
 # Set default compiler flags
 #