[ale] C++ Debuggery and the Path of Destruction

[John Mills]

Barry, All -

Thanks for the lead on this. Naturally it is probably sitting patiently in 
/usr/share/doc or somewhere.

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Barry Rountree wrote:

> There are also goodies like __DATE__ and __TIME__.  Google Predefined 
> Preprocessor Macros for a list.

Drop the 's' on Preprocessor' and 16,000+/- 'hits' give plenty to explore!

> 
> I'm pretty sure MSVC++ has both __CLASS__ and __FUNCTION__.  All the gnu 
> compilers have __FUNCTION__ and __PRETTY-FUNCTION__ (which gives class info).

The first couple of hits are M$'s info.

> And yes, I found out most of this after I had larded up thirty files with

Well, here I can just grep on 'cout' and improve the informativeness of my 
trace.

> Getting to remove all of those was a red-letter day.

I'm not dug in that deeply.

Thanks, and cheers.

 - John Mills
   john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu