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From: gerrit@xelion.UUCP (Gerrit Brouwer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Passing Variable Numbers of Arguments
Message-ID: <827@xelion.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 91 13:39:29 GMT
References: <5196@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <1991Feb11.225815.5875@zoo.toronto.edu> <5270@awdprime.UUCP>
Organization: XELION bv, Delft, The Netherlands
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sanders@peyote.cactus.org (Tony Sanders) writes:

>In article <1991Feb11.225815.5875@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

>So I do this:

>#ifdef NODEBUG
>#define DP(level) if (0)	/* I hope the optimizer gets rid of this */
>#else
>extern DebugPrint(char *,...);
>#define DP(level) if (debug&level) DebugPrint
>#endif
>DP(1)("this fmt string %s\n","sucks rocks");


>Any better ideas???

I do this:

#ifdef	DO_DEBUG
#define	PRINT(ARGUMENTS) DebugPrint ARGUMENTS
#else
#define	PRINT(ARGUMENTS) DebugPrint ARGUMENTS
#endif	DO_DEBUG

PRINT(("any number of arguments allowed: %s %d %f\n", "string", 4, 3.14));


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