Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 18:47:02 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: till plewe <till.plewe@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: is there a macro that prints the incoming param list? Message-ID: <20090601014702.GB9839@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <8be8566f0905311823y7871c5a3q1b8d57a4d9f520c@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090601010602.GA9692@thought.org> <8be8566f0905311823y7871c5a3q1b8d57a4d9f520c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 10:23:01AM +0900, till plewe wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > > > > is there any marco that printfs the incoming list, or am i asking too much of the > > compiler at runtime? > > > > example: > > > > main (int argc, char *argv) > > > > with this macro might print: > > > > "2", "testinput" > > > > and baz(char *file, int count) > > > > similarly might print, > > > > "testinput", "47" > > > > i'm probably asking the impossible, but this is certainly the place to > > ask. > > > > thanks, > > > > gary > > > > > > ps: i'm looking to create a DEBUG header. > > > > > > > > -- > > Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix > > http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org > > The 4.91a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > How is the macro supposed to know how to print the arguments? > There may be user defined types. > > The simplest way would be to add a printf statement after each > function definition. yeah, this is what i've done by hand. printfs at first, then gdb last. > > You could write scripts which generate the format strings for you from > your header files and then use a (variadic) macro which expects that you have > generated a table which contains for each function name the corresponding > format string and argument list. a script might work, thanks for the idea. but it's enought to have been reminded of the gcc macros . -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 4.91a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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