Is if(TRUE) a good idea in C?

Question

In the C programming language, it is my understanding that variables can only be defined at the beginning of a code block, and the variable will have the scope of the block it w

Answer 1

I wouldn't call myself seasoned, but I'm kind of cringing.

My issue with it is that the if statement would lead someone to believe that something is actually being evaluated...but at runtime, the macro is either true or false there's no change of it being something else. You should either include the code or not.

If what you mean to do is something like #ifdef DEBUG then you should do that to indicate to the reader that this is debug code...