Re: [boost] Error messages from Boost.test

From: Paul A Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-24 04:21:42

|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
|  [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Gennadiy Rozental
|  Sent: 24 June 2006 06:28
|  To: boost_at_[hidden]
|  Subject: Re: [boost] Error messages from Boost.test
|  
|  
|  "Paul A Bristow" <pbristow_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
|  news:E1FtqT5-0005lW-> But why does the test suite then output:
|  >
|  >  unknown location(0)
|  >
|  > unknown location(0): fatal error in "test_main_caller( 
|  argc, argv )":
|  
|  [...]
|  
|  > Could/should it show file and line here?  Am I using this 
|  wrongly?  Or is
|  > this just a feature?
|  
|  Essencially the reason is that Boost.Test does indeed do not 
|  know where the
|  error occured.
|  
|  Let's say we have
|  
|  ....
|  123: BOOST_CHECK( foo() );
|  
|  If there is a fatal error within function foo invokation 
|  Boost.Test doesn't
|  know where it actually occured. I couldn't state that it 
|  occured at line
|  123, since the assertion is not validated yet. What I could 
|  show is that we
|  enterred the expression at line 123 and then something 
|  happend (vs. an error
|  occured with assertion at line 123)
|  
|  
|  >
|  ..\..\..\..\..\..\boost-sandbox\libs\math_functions\test\test
|  _chisqr.cpp(119
|  > ): last checkpoint
|  >
|  > Does show the (deliberately) offending file and line, 
|  which is good.
|  
|  Is it good enough?

It is certainly good enough, but the existing 1st message has confused me -
not difficult ;-)

It suggested to me that I was missing something.

Could the first message easily and usefully say "After line 123" perhaps?

Paul
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