Suppressing all cout from a project

Question

There is a trick on Objective C that you can use to suppress all NSLogs you have used on your project from the final release.

The trick is adding this to the .pch file:

#ifndef DEBUG
#define NSLog(...) /* suppress NSLog when in release mode */
#endif

is there a similar trick to suppress all cout?

I have couts like this:

cout << "number: " << source->count() << endl;

or

cout << "file error";

etc., that are used under debugging but I would like to strip from final release. I don't want cout to print anything on the final release.

Is there a way to do that from the .pch file or something globally like that?

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:34

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I think so. This answer seems to do something like that. If NullStream() supplies your null stream, there you go.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:34

Community

answered Sep 08 '14 at 23:10

Gutblender

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Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, [it would be preferable](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/8259) to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference. – NobodyNada Sep 13 '14 at 18:15
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Or flag the question as a duplicate. – JAL Jun 02 '16 at 21:52
In the future, if you find yourself saying "Hey, look at this other question, it has the entire answer," please just flag to close the question as a duplicate of the other. – Nic Sep 28 '16 at 22:25

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