Re: [ft-devel] improved tracing support

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

>   objs:3:     FT_Open_Face: Requesting number of faces and named instances
>   io:1:       FT_Stream_Open: opened `arial.ttf' (273020 bytes) successfully
>   ttobjs:2:   TTF driver
>   sfobjs:2:     SFNT driver
>   sfobjs:3:   sfnt_open_font: synthesize TTC
>   sfobjs:2:   sfnt_init_face: 0x20aa9d0 (index -1)
>   ttload:2:   tt_face_load_font_dir: 0x20aa9d0
>   ttload:2:   -- Number of tables:         23
>   ttload:2:   -- Format version:   0x00010000

It is ok, but a little bit redundant.

> To implement that, I would use variadic macro support introduced to
> the C99 preprocessor – in case this is not available, the tracing will
> look as of today.

__func__ is also useful in C99. Imagine how many function names we
could hide. That would require C99 for tracing.

I see a lot of 0x%X, which can be shortened to %#X, crazy of me to even mention.