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C++ Marco Debug Options
January 26th, 2012 under Programming. [ Comments: none ]

To be honest, it should be straight forward but I took me a while to figure it out.

I wanted to mark certain lines in the code such that I can easily enable/disable it. So here it is:

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// set to 1 to enable timing and output
#if 0 
   #define TIMING 
   #define OUTPUT 
#else
   #define TIMING / ## /
   #define OUTPUT / ## /
#endif
...
   TIMING startTimer();
   ...
   TIMING stopTimer();
...
// set to 1 to enable timing and output
#if 0 
   #define TIMING 
   #define OUTPUT 
#else
   #define TIMING / ## /
   #define OUTPUT / ## /
#endif
...
   TIMING startTimer();
   ...
   TIMING stopTimer();
...

when

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#define TIMING / ## /
#define TIMING / ## /
is used then
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TIMING
TIMING
is replaced with
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//
//
. Thus the entire line is commented and therefore disabled. This way i can easily turn on/off several debugging facilities.

The

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##
##
in the macro definition means that the previous and successive pieces of text are concatenated. So
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TIMING myCode;
TIMING myCode;
results in
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// myCode;
// myCode;
. We cannot use
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#define TIMING //
#define TIMING //
because the
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//
//
won’t be parsed as the replacement string, it will be parsed as the comment literal.

This is a simple but handy technique.
C++ Map
January 17th, 2012 under Programming. [ Comments: none ]

Amazing work that shows C++ features and evolution of C++