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__FILE__ and __LINE__

__FILE__ and __LINE__

Owned by Eliot Muir
Feb 17, 2022
1 min read

These macros are special in that they give:

  • __FILE__ - the current C/CPP file being compiled.

  • __LINE__ - the current line number being processed

So these can be quite useful for specialized problems when we need this information.

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