coding style - statistics

2020-08-30 Thread Hal Murray via devel
Context is that James is working on making ntpq/sysstats (and friends) print out the totals for counters as a second column next to the since-reset that it currently prints. The current counters get reset if/when they are logged hourly so ntpq can't see the big picture after the system has been

Re: cpp hacking: bump FOO by 1

2020-08-30 Thread ASSI via devel
Hal Murray via devel writes: > I want to keep track of the number of times a macro has been called. That > seems like something that would happen often enough that there would be a > standard recipe but I haven't seen it. (Or didn't recognize it.) You seem to be asking for the non-portable __C

cpp hacking: bump FOO by 1

2020-08-30 Thread Hal Murray via devel
Is there any way to do something like #define FOO $FOO+1 I want to keep track of the number of times a macro has been called. That seems like something that would happen often enough that there would be a standard recipe but I haven't seen it. (Or didn't recognize it.) -- The conte