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The dbg library is a set of C++ utilities to facilitate modern debugging idioms.

It has been designed to support defensive programming techniques in modern C++ code. It integrates well with standard library usage and has been carefully designed to be easy to write, easy to read and very easy to use.

It provides various constraint checking utilities together with an integrated error logging facility. These utilities are flexible and customisable. They can be enabled and disabled at runtime, and in release builds, dbg library use can be compiled away to nothing.

Rich debugging can only be implemented in large code bases from the outset, it is hard to retrofit full defensive programming techniques onto existent code. For this reason it is good practice to use a library like dbg when you start a new project. By using dbg extensively you will find bugs quicker, and prevent more insidious problems rearing their head later in the project's life.

For instructions on the dbg library's use see the dbg namespace documentation.