[klippy]

I was really bored, so about half an hour ago, I was goofing around and wanted to implement __DATE__ constant in Sublime Text. When I compiled that code (without really implementing it), it compiled just fine. I quickly put '-l' (listing) compiler switch, which shows pre-processor stuff, so I was able to see what happened, and I really found today's date in the code.

I took a quick look at Pawn compiler code (sc1.c file precisely). I found some neat stuff I didn't know about, there are few more constants!
So, I ran this code on my local server:

PHP Code:

server_print("Constants:");
server_print("__DATE__: %s", __DATE__); // Current date
server_print("__TIME__: %s", __TIME__); // Current time
server_print("cellbits: %d", cellbits); // Cell size in bits
server_print("cellmax: %d", cellmax); // Maximum value that cell can hold
server_print("cellmin: %d", cellmin) // Minimum value that cell can hold
server_print("__Pawn: %d", __Pawn); // Pawn version as an integer
server_print("debug: %d", debug); // Debug level, I guess (-d compiler switch alters this) 


And this is the output in server console:


I just thought it may be useful to someone, so I decided to share this. I personaly find __DATE__ and __TIME__ really useful.
There are actually few more, but I don't think they are worth mentioning.

[Arkshine]

in AMXX 1.8.3, three new constants have been added:

__LINE__
__BINARY_PATH__
__BINARY_NAME__

[klippy]

Thank you for mentioning it.

[zmd94]

Nice sharing. I don't know about this. ;)

[mde...]

Thanks a lot)

[Kia]

Interesting, thanks for sharing.

[klippy]

Didn't want to open a new thread to ask this, since it's pretty much the same topic.

Arkshine, what do you think of adding __FUNCTION__ and __FILE__ constants? Could be useful for run-time debugging in my opinion.

[Jhob94]

Sorry for the off-topic over here but you just remind me an old question i had and never asked. Is it possible to modify cellmax and cellmin?

[klippy]

It is, by compiling amxxpc with PAWN_CELL_SIZE of either 16 or 64 (it's 32 by default). But I don't see a reason why would you do that. I've never seen 16 or 64 bit AMXX yet.