Colin Caughie wrote:
From what I can see so far, using this library is not going to be a compelling alternative to the concise
#include <syslog.h> syslog(LOG_WARN,"Blob %d failed to %s",n,x);
Yeah, we used to do that. Once you've had a few crashes due to passing the wrong argument types in the variable argument list, that _only_ happen when you hit the error condition that that line is supposed to help you diagnose, Boost.Logging looks very compelling indeed... :)
You need a compiler that type-checks printf-like function calls: in /usr/include/sys/syslog.h: extern void syslog (int __pri, __const char *__fmt, ...) __attribute__ ((__format__(__printf__, 2, 3))); test.c: #include <syslog.h> void f(char* s) { syslog(LOG_INFO,"Foo %d",s); } $ gcc -W -Wall -c /tmp/test.c /tmp/test.c: In function ‘f’: /tmp/test.c:3: warning: format ‘%d’ expects type ‘int’, but argument 3 has type ‘char *’ Phil.