#define DEBUG... (using printf for debugging)

[Bill Silvert]

In the recent postings there were a number of solutions to the problem
of defining a function DEBUG which optionally works like printf.  Only
one addresses the fact that debugging information should preferably go
to stderr:

In article <8060 at goofy.Apple.COM> escher at Apple.COM (Michael Crawford) writes:
>more elegant still:
>
>#ifdef DEBUG
>#define fDebug( x ) fprintf x
>#define Debug( x ) printf x
>#else
>#define fDebug( x )
>#define Debug( x )
>#endif
>
>fDebug(( stderr, "debugging info" ));
>Debug(( "debugging info" ));

Is there a way to define Debug so that Debug(x, y, z,...) can optionally
either do nothing or generate fprintf(stderr, x, y, z,...) with an
arbitrary number of arguments?  Crawford's method still requires
specific mention of stderr in each debug line.

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