Could you rely on optimisation to strip out the code i.e. would a call to the following function be optimised out by the optimiser? void log_debug( … ) { if

Could you rely on optimisation to strip out the code i.e. would a call to the following function be optimised out by the optimiser? void log_debug( … ) { if ( LOG_LEVEL >= 6 ) { // logging stuff here. } }