C Programming Tricks
Quick Debugging Statements:
In the C Preprocessor section, we mentioned that you could turn on and off Debugging statements by using a #define. Expanding on that, it is even more convenient if you write a macro (using the PRINTF() macro from the I/O section):
#ifdef DEBUG #define DPRINTF(s) PRINTF(s) #else #define DPRINTF(s) #endif
Now you can have DPRINTF(("Debugging statement")); for debugging statements! This can be turned on and off using the -DDEBUG gcc flag.
