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Debug Modes in the Ecl
Description: Toggling debug/ndebug mode for the ecl.Keywords: ecl debug
Tutorial Level: BEGINNER
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Debug Mode
To compile in debug mode, do not define either NDEBUG or ECL_NDEBUG. e.g.
g++ -lecl_devices -o hello hello.cpp
This will enable alot of error handling within ecl components themselves. For example ecl_containers will do alot of range checking, ecl_devices will test for errors on every read/write.
Release Mode
Define either NDEBUG or ECL_NDEBUG. e.g.
g++ -DNDEBUG -lecl_devices -o hello hello.cpp
This will disable alot of the aforementioned error handling - especially those inside fast control blocks. If you want to do error handling in these blocks, check the return values for each function manually.
Inside Ros
In ros, the NDEBUG macro is automatically added by the cmake build system when choosing to build in Release mode.
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