#ifdef vs #if - which is better/safer as a method for enabling/disabling compilation of particular sections of code?

Question

This may be a matter of style, but there\'s a bit of a divide in our dev team and I wondered if anyone else had any ideas on the matter...

Basically, we have some de

Answer 1

A little OT, but turning on/off logging with the preprocessor is definitely sub-optimal in C++. There are nice logging tools like Apache's log4cxx which are open-source and don't restrict how you distribute your application. They also allow you to change logging levels without recompilation, have very low overhead if you turn logging off, and give you the chance to turn logging off completely in production.