From kde-core-devel  Tue Dec 21 17:52:41 1999
From: Mirko Sucker <mirko.sucker () unibw-hamburg ! de>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:52:41 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: RFC: Strategy for integrating the Nana debugging library
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=94580224627317

"Dirk A. Mueller" wrote:
> Why do we need debug areas when nana remembers file and line number of where
> the debug statement is? This is simpler and still more informative imho.
> For kdebug you have to "allocate" a area number and use (read: remember and
> type) that wherever I just want to have a short debug output.
Well, it is up to you to decide what implementation you use. If there
are some people (there are quite a number of them) that like areas, this
5kBytes of code should remain. 
> the debug output is right now removed because it slows things down,
> especially when kdebug is used.
> 
> nana seems to be nicer because it only slows down when the code is compiled
> with debug information and it actually makes sense to search for bugs.

from kdebug.h:

#ifdef kdebug
#undef kdebug
#endif
#ifdef NDEBUG
#define kdebug kdebug_null
#endif

...

from kdebug.cpp:

void kdebug_null( ushort /*nLevel*/, ushort /*nArea*/, 
		  const char* /*pFormat*/, ... )
{
  return;
}

When compiling with NDEBUG, every compiler should not even create the
call to kdebug_null. 
Greetings,
--Mirko.

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