Not the function calling the NSLog or Dlog but function that call that function.
I created a class
+(void) computeTime:(void (^)())block
{
NSDate * currentTime = [NSDate date];
block();
DLog ("Time Running is: %f", [[NSDate date] timeIntervalSinceDate:currentTime);
}
So everytime there is an operation whose time I want to measure I will put that in a block instead.
and do [Tools computeTime:^{//operation}];
However, I want to know the function that call that computeTime. How do I do so?
Two options:
The first is to abuse +[NSThread callStackSymbols]
to get an array of all the symbols in the call stack and pull out the one you want. I suspect this is going to be relatively slow.
The second is to use a macro. The C preprocessor provides a nice macro called __PRETTY_FUNCTION__
which contains the name of the function all nicely formatted, and it works well for Obj-C methods as well. Instead of [Tools computeTime:^{/*operation*/}]
you can either use something like [Tools computeTimeWithName:__PRETTY_FUNCTION__ block:^{/*operation*/}]
or you could wrap it all up in your own macro so you can say TOOLS_COMPUTE_TIME(^{/*operation*/})
:
#define TOOLS_COMPUTE_TIME(...) [Tools computeTimeWithName:__PRETTY_FUNCTION__ block:(__VA_ARGS__)]
Note, I've used a varargs-style macro because the C Preprocessor doesn't understand obj-c syntax very well, so any commas inside your block will be interpreted as separate arguments to the macro. If I defined it using TOOLS_COMPUTE_TIME(op)
then the compiler would complain that the macro only takes 1 argument but it was given multiple. By using varargs the compiler doesn't care how many arguments you give it, and it will pass them all on to the __VA_ARGS__
token.
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