Thread: displaying debug information

Originally Posted by Bladactania

I was operating under the assumption that the debug code would be removed once development is complete, which would mean the resources used by the extra if statements would be only during development.

Yes, it is true that an optimising compiler is likely to just remove those if statements so there would be zero overhead.

EDIT:
I just remembered: the standard assert macro depends on whether NDEBUG is defined, and it would be good to use this... but it does not fit so well into your example as it does with Snafuist's example, since you are relying on boolean values whereas Snafuist relies on whether a name is defined, just like how assert works.