Debug Messages [was: various]

[David Relson]

At 12:14 AM 10/27/02, you wrote:

>On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 07:02:50PM -0400, David Relson wrote:
> > At 06:56 PM 10/22/02, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > >On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Clint Adams wrote:
> > >
> > >> The change in -vv behavior has been causing me some consternation,
> > >> especially when I am unfortunate enough to have to use a dialup.
> > >> I think there is a fundamental problem in treating 'debug' the same way
> > >> as 'verbose'.  I suggest keeping -v's for verbose and using another
> > >> option for debug (too bad -d's taken).  Multiple -v's would, as now,
> > >> increase verbosity, but the debug option would take the bitmask.
> > >
> > >-D is still available, and -x is not too uncommon for debugging flags.
> >
> > As indicated earlier today, I have code that will allow verbose
> > printing to be turned on for a section of codee, e.g. GENERAL, LEXER,
> > DATABASE, etc.  I'm awaiting feedback ...
>
>is the debug code always compiled in? it would be nice if the macros
>would evaluate to nothing if the user specified a non-debug build.

Graham,

At present, configure doesn't provide a way to select debug or non-debug 
when building.  Builds are currently "debug".

That being said, there _is_ a way.  In Makefile.am, add "-DNODEBUG" to 
"CFLAGS" and then build the program.  This will make the program 
smaller.  I don't think all the DEBUG controlled code is a significant 
amount, so I think the effect will be minimal.

David