tracer.hpp

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/*
   Copyright (C) 2012 - 2018 by Mark de Wever <koraq@xs4all.nl>
   Part of the Battle for Wesnoth Project https://www.wesnoth.org/

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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*/

/**
 * @file
 * Contains code for tracing the code.
 */

#pragma once

#include <map>
#include <string>

/** Helper structure for gathering the tracing statistics. */
struct tracer
{
    /**
     * Helper structure to print the tracing statistics.
     *
     * When the constructor gets a valid @ref tracer pointer it prints the
     * tracing statistics in its destructor. This allows the structure to be
     * initialised at the beginning of a scope and print the statistics once
     * the scope is left. (This makes it easier to write the tracing macros.)
     */
    struct printer
    {
        printer(const printer&) = delete;
        printer& operator=(const printer&) = delete;

        explicit printer(const tracer* const tracer__);

        ~printer();

        /** The tracer, whose statistics to print. */
        const tracer* const tracer_;
    };

    tracer(const tracer&) = delete;
    tracer& operator=(const tracer&) = delete;

    explicit tracer(const char* const function__);

    /** The total number of runs. */
    int run;

    /** The function being traced. */
    const char* const function;

    /**
     * The tracer counters.
     *
     * The first pair contains a line number and a name of the marker.
     * This has two advantages:
     * * A line number is always unique, thus if using markers with the same
     *   name, they are not the same marker.
     * * The markers are sorted in order of appearance and not in order of
     * their names.
     *
     * The second pair contains the number of times a marker is hit.
     */
    std::map<std::pair<int, std::string>, int> counters;
};

/**
 * The beginning of a traced scope.
 *
 * It is not intended that tracer scopes are nested, but it should work at the
 * moment.
 *
 * @param interval                The interval between printing the statistics.
 */
#ifdef __GNUC__
#define TRACER_ENTRY(interval)                                               \
    static struct tracer tracer(__PRETTY_FUNCTION__);                              \
    tracer::printer print((++tracer.run % interval) == 0 ? &tracer : nullptr)
#else
#define TRACER_ENTRY(interval)                                               \
    static struct tracer tracer(__FUNCTION__);                                     \
    tracer::printer print((++tracer.run % interval) == 0 ? &tracer : nullptr)
#endif

/**
 * A trace count point.
 *
 * When this macro is reached the counter for this marker is increased.
 *
 * @param marker                  A string with the name of the marker.
 */
#define TRACER_COUNT(marker)                                                 \
    do {                                                                     \
        ++tracer.counters[std::pair(__LINE__, marker)];                 \
    } while(false)