Chapter 3. Using the ACE Logging Facility
Every program needs to display diagnostics: error messages, debugging output, and so on. Traditionally, we might use a number of printf() calls or cerr statements in our application in order to help trace execution paths or display helpful runtime information. ACE's logging facility provides us with ways to do these things while at the same time giving us great control over how much of the information is printed and where it is directed.
It is important to have a convenient way to create debug statements. In this modern age of graphical source-level debuggers, it might seem strange to pepper your application with the equivalent of a bunch of print statements. However, diagnostic statements are useful ...
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