debug macro

[jmccay]

  How does linux (& windows) handle the debug macro?

#define DEBUG

or

#define _DEBUG

  Is this a defacto standard for g++?

   Also, is there anything that is define automatically when including debugging information?

jmccay

[thomas]

I don't know about a DEBUG "standard", but there is a NDEBUG "standard".

If you define NDEBUG, then the preprocessor evaluates assert() to nothing (assert is simply a macro).
Everything else is home-made stuff and not standard.