No matter how proficient you are, I think, you might still use one of the primary methods of debugging: trace values using printf, TRACE, outputDebugString, etc… and then scan the output while debugging.
Adding information about the line number and the file where the log message comes from is a very efficient method that might save you a lot of time. In this post, I’ll describe one trick that is especially useful in Visual Studio but might also help in other IDE/compilers.
I’ll also show you how modern C++ and C++20 make code nicer.
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