yakbase: Basic services for C development

• yak_contract: Flexible support for assertion handling
• yak_log: flexible support for in-program log messages

Yak_log provides basic "log a debug message" features using macros and standard printf() formatting conventions. Other macros support adding "levels" of messages or a 32-bit mask, which gives the developer a bit of flexibility.

Both yak_contract and yak_log use macros which can be entirely disabled in production code, allowing the developer to throw in a lot of scaffolding and strip it away easily for the final build.

While none of this is groundbreaking, I wanted a library that was extremely small and lightweight, and did not find anything immediately that called out to me. Hopefully others will find this as useful as I do.

Sample

double
mock_square_root( double x )
{
  REQUIRE( x >= 0 );
  YAK_MLOG( MASK_FILE_MATH_C | MASK_LOG_FUNCTION_ENTRY, 
    ( "mock_square_root entered with argument: %f", x ) );
  double result = sqrt( x );
  ENSURE( result * result = x );
  YAK_MLOG( MASK_FILE_MATH_C | MASK_LOG_FUNCTION_EXIT,
    ( "mock_square_root exited with result: %f", result ) );
  return result;
}

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