What is the preferred way to print debugging information to the console from C++?

XOD Programming Questions
1

Right now I’m doing something like this:

#ifdef DEBUG_SERIAL
            XOD_DEBUG_SERIAL.println("Initializing Controller");
#endif

I didn’t see any info on the intent of these macros in the docs. Seems like they ultimately expand to “Serial”, but not sure what the recommended best practice is.

2

Just looked in the debug/watch node, and it uses XOD_DEBUG_SERIAL, but without any #ifdef. My nodes wouldn’t compile without the #ifdef. The only difference I can see is several #pragma statements at the beginning of debug/watch, but they seem unrelated.