build - Embed timestamp in object code at compile time with C++

Question

I want to perform a printf() to display when the currently executing code was last compiled. Does C/C++ provide a macro that gives you that resolves to a timestamp during compilation?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2526933/embed-timestamp-in-object-code-at-compile-time-with-c

Answer 1

You could use __DATE__ and __TIME__.