re: OT Re: Removing function calls (potentially OT)

[Guido Draheim]

I did send an e-mail directly, and posted an answer publically to
news:comp.lang.c.moderated - it is really off-topic. cheers, guido

Es schrieb Kenneth Pronovici:
> 
> I guess this is probably somewhat off-topic, but I'm hoping someone here
> can point me in the right direction.  I apologize in advance if this is
> too off-topic - feel free to take the conversation off the list if need
> be.
> 
> I have a function:
> 
>    LogTrace(char *format, ...);
> 
> that is used for tracing.  For potential performance reasons in
> production my boss wants the option to remove these calls entirely.  I'd
> like to provide an autoconf option --without-tracing that would build a
> version of my program with these calls removed, but I'm running into a
> brick wall (possibly of my own making).
> 
> My initial guess was something like this:
> 
>    #ifdef WITHOUT_TRACING
>       #define LogTrace
>    #endif
> 
> However, that definition will turn this:
> 
>    LogTrace("%s", variable);
> 
> into this:
> 
>    ("%s", variable);
> 
> which doesn't seem like a good idea although it does seem to compile at
> least some of the time.
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions on a better way to do this?  Just an example
> of a package which does something similar would be a great starting
> point.  I'm doing all of this work in ANSI C.
> 
> Thanks, and again, I'm sorry if this is too off-topic.
> 
> KEN
> 
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> Kenneth J. Pronovici <address@hidden>
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>  temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
>       - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
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