Comparison with dbg-macro

[dufferzafar]

I'm used to the Python icecream library and really like this style of printf based debugging.

While looking for C++ based library, I found this repo & another one: https://github.com/sharkdp/dbg-macro

Are you aware of it? Any comparison between the two? which features one supports & the other doesn't etc?

[dufferzafar]

I'll try to list the ones that I notice:

• dbg has colors, ic doesn't
• dbg prints context (file & func name) by default (not sure if there's a way to turn it off), ic can also print context
• dbg adds type of the argument as well, ic doesn't
• dbg.h issues a warning when included so we remember to remove it - nice touch!

@sharkdp, any more differences b/w these two libs?

[dufferzafar]

Also found this: https://github.com/eerimoq/dbg-macro

Which has a backtrace macro.

[renatoGarcia]

I was not aware of dbg-macro until now. Nice library, thank you point it out!
I definitively will take some ideas and inspirations from it.

[renatoGarcia]

About the features differences, beyond the ones that you have cited I would put that Icecream has support for printing wide characters, can print structs without iostream<< overload using Clang's __builtin_dump_struct, and wraps and format long lines before printing.

That from a quick look at dbg-macro. Maybe it can do more things that I'm not aware.

[sharkdp]

can print structs without iostream<< overload using Clang's __builtin_dump_struct

Oh cool, I didn't know about that 👍