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Mastering Rust. - Second Edition

You're reading from  Mastering Rust. - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789346572
Pages 554 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Rahul Sharma Rahul Sharma
Profile icon Rahul Sharma

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Getting Started with Rust 2. Managing Projects with Cargo 3. Tests, Documentation, and Benchmarks 4. Types, Generics, and Traits 5. Memory Management and Safety 6. Error Handling 7. Advanced Concepts 8. Concurrency 9. Metaprogramming with Macros 10. Unsafe Rust and Foreign Function Interfaces 11. Logging 12. Network Programming in Rust 13. Building Web Applications with Rust 14. Interacting with Databases in Rust 15. Rust on the Web with WebAssembly 16. Building Desktop Applications with Rust 17. Debugging 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Debugging macros

When developing complex macros, most of the time you need ways to analyze how your code expands to the inputs you gave to the macro. You can always use println! or panic! at the places you want to see the generated code, but it's a very crude way to debug it. There's are better way, though. The Rust community provides us with a subcommand called cargo-expand. This subcommand was developed by David Tonlay at https://github.com/dtolnay/cargo-expand, who is also the author of the syn and quote crates. This command internally calls the nightly compiler flag -Zunstable-options --pretty=expanded, but the design of the subcommand was done in such a way that it doesn't require you to manually switch to the nightly tool chain as it finds and switches to it automatically. To demonstrate this command, we'll take the example of our IntoMap derive macro...

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