how to i designate the current function...?

Gary Kline kline at thought.org
Sun May 31 23:52:28 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 12:53:39AM +0200, Ond??ej Majerech wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:31:40 +0200, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> 
> >	I'm not sure this is std yet, but think it is available in gcc.
> >	If I'm calling funtion bar(char *, char) with one of the args
> >	incorrect, is there a way to have gcc name bar() in an error message?
> >
> 
> Are you looking for the __FUNCTION__ macro?
> 
> void baz( char yes_no ) {
>     if ( yes_no == 'Y' || yes_no == 'N' ) {
>         // Do stuff...
>     } else {
>         printf( "%s: %s\n", __FUNCTION__, "I got an invalid arg" );
>     }
> }
> 
> AFAIK, this isn't standard C, but well supported on GCC.
> 
> Ondra


	Yes, this is just what I was thinking off.  Thanks muchly.

	gary



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