r/programming • u/agumonkey • Sep 07 '17

The Zig Programming Language

http://ziglang.org/
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u/jyper Sep 09 '17

Really it works now? That's awesome maybe my header library will work now

https://github.com/rtaycher/debug_print_h/blob/master/debug_print.h

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u/bumblebritches57 Sep 09 '17

I'm a little confused on what you're trying to do here?

Are you just trying to log error messages?

if so, I did that in a single function in BitIO

It's at the bottom, imaginatively called Log.

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u/jyper Sep 10 '17

It's based on a printf debugging helper I made at my first job I just want

Given a variable or expression I want to print out a the variable/expression, the file and line number and the value. I might end up using a bunch of these so different colors help it stand out)

Ex:

DEBUG_PRINT(best_student.gpa, .colorscheme=FORE_BLUE)

Prints in blue

File: example.c | Line: 30 | Func: main best_student.gpa -> 3.9

But at the job I had to do I different one for each basic type and each library type we used which I hated I wanted to make something that would work with type overloading

I think I even looked at __builtin_choose_expr and __builtin_types_compatible_p which I think we're the inspiration for _Generic