Game developers have been doing this since forever, its one of their main reasons to avoid the STL. EASTL has this as a feature by default, and unreal engine c

Game developers have been doing this since forever, its one of their main reasons to avoid the STL. EASTL has this as a feature by default, and unreal engine container library has the boundchecks enabled on most games. The performance cost of those boundchecks in practice is well worth the reduction of bugs even on performance sensitive code.