Damaged output when running on compilerexplorer.org

[Asperamanca]

When running code with ctrack on Compiler Explorer, the output does show results, but many strings in the table are damaged:

+-------------+--------------------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+-------+---------+
|Unknown codeUnknown code filename |Unknown codeUnknown code function |Unknown codeUnknown code line |Unknown codeUnknown code time acc |Unknown codeUnknown code sd |Unknown codeUnknown code cv |Unknown codeUnknown code calls |Unknown codeUnknown code threads |Unknown codeUnknown code
+-------------+--------------------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+-------+---------+
| example.cpp | getSizeAfterFilter12345Classic | 1026 | 27.42 ms | 5.79 mcs | 0.211212 | 1000 | 1 |
+-------------+--------------------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+-------+---------+

See https://godbolt.org/z/5oa5ffsMx for a full example.

I am aware the running benchmarks in the cloud does not yield very useful results, but tools such as compiler explorer are valuable to share, discuss and improve the benchmarked code.

[Compaile]

Hi thanks for the input,
seems to be an issue with how godbolt supports special console output (colored text)

if we print the table with
std::cout << ctrack::result_as_string();
instead of the colored print function ( ctrack::result_print();) it works. but that should be fixable i will look into

[Asperamanca]

Thanks for the workaround suggestion!

[Compaile]

proposed fix:
add a flag to disable color on result_print since thats the issue here.

alternative use different color encoding which godbolt supports however since the issue so far is only here, we could eighter stay with the workaround or add this flag.
What do you think?

[Asperamanca]

A solution that "just works" would of course be preferable, but that's a question of how much work it is to implement.
Do you know whether "running in compiler explorer" can be queried e.g. by a define? Then you could just disable coloring automatically in that case, it would be a one-liner.