Re: [RFC] New markers description without format strings

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:02:24AM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'll skip the implementation details, but I am considering changing the
> current marker implementation, which uses format strings, for something
> that would look like :
> 
> trace_mark(subsysname, eventname, mark_types(MARK_CHAR, MARK_ULLONG),
>            mychar, myull);

I don't like this at all.  Lots of shouting and strange syntax.  The nice
thing about format strings is that it's intuitive to any half-way experience
C programmer.  We use format string all over and thus know how to parse
and write them.  And our editors do the syntax highlighting for us :)

What would the syntax above buy you?