Subject: Re: debug messages
From: Thomas Fletcher (thomasf@qnx.com)
Date: Wed Mar 14 2001 - 14:36:27 CST
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> Thomas F wrote:
> > No DONT'T terminate the messages with \n. The UT_DEBUGMSG()
> >macro will already put a newline on things for you. I hate
> >having all of our stuff double spaced on debug output!
>
> You're only partially correct here:
>
> The Unix version: fprintf(stderr,"DEBUG: %s",sBuf);
> The QNX version: fprintf(stderr,"DEBUG: %s\n",sBuf);
> The BeOS version: fprintf(stderr,"DEBUG: %s",sBuf);
> The Win32 version: OutputDebugString(sBuf);
> The Mac version: DebugStr(sBuf);
>
> So of the debugmsg's that *directly* depend on printf, only QNX is getting
> newlines afterwords for obvious reasons. And the Win32 and Mac code doesn't
> explicitly add a newline to the buf either. I'd suggest removing the '\n'
> because it's not obvious to me that every debug message should start on a
> new line.
I stand corrected. This must have been changed (fairly
recently) and whoever made the change just never bothered
with the QNX version. Sigh ... one lonely man against the
world.
Thomas
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Thomas (toe-mah) Fletcher QNX Software Systems
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