Re: New idea?
Re: New idea?
- Subject: Re: New idea?
- From: "Michael Ash" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:44:46 -0400
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 11:29 AM, William Squires <email@hidden> wrote:
> I just had a light bulb moment (oops, I should have said "a super-bright
> white LED moment") - what if Apple were to include a "macro-expansion" tool
> in XCode (4, anybody?)? The idea would be that - if you have a problem in
> which you are having trouble with hard-to-find compilation errors, you could
> run this tool (through a menu item selection), and it would show you the
> total expansion for a ".m", ".c", or ".cpp" file as the compiler sees it,
> including all "#include/#import"s and all #define macro expansions, all
> color-coded. You would then recompile, and the error messages would then
> refer to that listing, allowing you to pinpoint what the compiler is really
> seeing that line as saying, rather than what you THINK the compiler is
> seeing!
> Just my $0.02 here.
You mean like Build->Preprocess?
It won't show you where the errors are in that mess, but you can
either compile the result yourself or just do it by eye.
Mike
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