Need help to improve debugging by logging

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Hello,

in my job I need to log a big number of files in C++ for a project where I need to reegineer an existing functionality without any help.
I want to log a big amount of files.
I see that you have the good level of abstraction,
since you use graphviz to visualize dependency graph. and it s great !!!

best regards and thanks in advance for any help and thanks again for sharing !!!

Posted 15-Dec-09 12:13pm

hichem147

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I am speaking about using something like Visual Studio Macro
to insert in every function a code line
C++ MACRO which prints in a log file the name of the used function
and since there are 500 files
I want to make the insert of this code line automated

And sorry about the graphViz (it was a mistake)

thanks for your answer

Posted 16-Dec-09 11:28am

hichem147

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Please edit your post, don't post 'answers' that are just more questions.

You can use a macro to log something, if you want. It's obviously then not abstracted, or in any way pretty. macros are nasty. However, there is no way to automate what you want to do. The main reason to use a macro is that it's inserted inline, which means it can report the file and line number it was called from. But, you're still going to have to insert them yourself, unless you want a generic log at the top of every method call or something similarly formulaic, in which case you may be able to write code to parse your code files and do it for you.

Posted 16-Dec-09 11:32am

Christian Graus

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Christian Graus · Accepted Answer · 2009-12-15T12:16:00

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I see that you have the good level of abstraction,
since you use graphviz to visualize dependency graph. and it s great !!!

What on earth are you talking about. Are you referring to an article somewhere ?

I don't really understand what it is you need to log. I would write a class with static methods that you can then call from where-ever you like to provide logging. I actually wrote an article for WDJ years ago that used windows messages between applications to provide logging in real time in a release build if my logging app was running to show the logs, but if you want to write them to files, then yes, you want to abstract out the code that handles the logging, and call it as needed.

Rajesh R Subramanian · Accepted Answer · 2009-12-15T17:16:00

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I can only guess that you are in need to add logging capability to your application? Then simply search CP. There are plenty of articles on how to accomplish it.

Posted 15-Dec-09 17:16pm

Rajesh R Subramanian