Re: #defining a comment

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_Wikstr=F6m?= <Erik-wikstrom@telia.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:16:31 GMT
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<jVXgg.3722$E02.890@newsb.telia.net>
On 2006-06-05 17:03, hobbes_7_8@yahoo.com wrote:

Hi everybody!

This is basically a pre-processor doubt. I have this very simple
define:

#ifdef NDEBUG
#define QTRACE //
#else
#define QTRACE qDebug()
#endif

... so that the line:

QTRACE << "Foi lido o valor" << *it;

... is expanded to:

qDebug() << "Foi lido o valor" << *it;

... in debug mode, and is expanded to:

// << "Foi lido o valor" << *it;

... in release mode. Unfortunately compilation yields:

main.cpp(17) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '<<'

... Meaning the pre-processor expanded the macro to absolutely nothing
:( Does anyone know a way to overcome this? I'm developing this on
Visual Studio .NET 2003 but it will run on a HP-UX system, so I can't
rely on any Microsoft extension.


I'm not really sure since I seldom use macros but I think that the // is
treated as a comment by the preprocessor. Try #define QTRACE \/\/.

Erik WikstrFm
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