feat(cpp-client): Add GetTidAsString as a utility function #5843
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Add
GetTidAsString()
as a utility function.Note that the previous version of this code was
inline
. However, on the Windows platform, making it inline involves pulling in some windows includes includingwindows.h
. The problem with includingwindows.h
is that it defines some macros that might conflict. In particular it defines themin
andmax
macros that definitely conflict.In order to free ourselves and our Windows customers from seeing the conflicts that might arise, we isolate the Windows-specific code in a .cc file rather than including
windows.h
in a .h file.There are other approaches that would work too, such as defining
NOMINMAX
or changing all of our calls that look likemin()
andmax()
to have extra parentheses:(min)()
and(max)()
.However in my opinion, isolating this Windows-specific code in one .cc file was simplest for now.