Why is SDK all like this?

[ArtemS]

I'm using SDK 12.3.0 with nRF51 in SEGGER ES.

I stumped upon NRF_LOG_ERROR problems. Digging it down i needed to find NRF_LOG_INIT.

It was defined in nrf_log_ctrl.h like that:

#define NRF_LOG_INIT(timestamp_func) NRF_LOG_INTERNAL_INIT(timestamp_func)

So I couldn't search it further using "Go to definitions". I searched through files and find in nrf_log_ctrl_internal.h

#define NRF_LOG_INTERNAL_INIT(timestamp_func) \
    nrf_log_init(timestamp_func)

So basically all it does: goes from small letters to capital  in nrf_log_init() and obscures function declaration from search.

[awneil]

ArtemS said:

So I couldn't search it further using "Go to definitions"

Why not?

SES does seem to have some annoying limitations on its search/browsing - but you can't blame Nordic for that!

[ArtemS]

Well, maybe SES is not ideal (while I find it hard to blame for not knowing what is in the right part of macro, since there can be anything).

But constant usage of sometimes obscure and seemingly pointless macros (lately I was to struggle with one 5 iterations deep) doesn't help to study/use those otherwise nice chips either.