Re: Callback and event logging

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw iprimus com au>]

Matthias Mann wrote:
> On Friday September 12 2003 04:46 CEST, Russell Shaw wrote:
>
> > I put this at the beginning of every function in the program:
> >
> > #ifdef ENABLE_DEBUG
> >    printf ("__FUNCTION__ = %s
>
> ", __FUNCTION__);
>
> > #endif
>
> A good idea. But could have very much debug output. The project
> i'm working for has nearly 100 functions and a lot of signal
> handlers. And some functions are called over 1000 times per
> second......
>     
> so i only include such printf lines if i have a buggy function
> to get some infos about the values of used pointers received
> signals and others. And delete them after the trouble is fixed.

I put this debug output into hundreds of functions. It turned out
the program had one extra thread called 20/s, so i put
#ifdef ENABLE_DEBUG_THREAD into those thread functions
so i could enable/disable it at compile-time.